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US Report: Wisconsin - Fewer permit hurdles in linchpin market

 
Jesse Broehl, Windpower Monthly Magazine, 01 February 2010, 12:00am
 

US: Wisconsin has watched wind projects in upper Midwest neighbours Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois experience breakneck growth in recent years. But Wisconsin has remained stuck at half a gigawatt of wind power capacity, with nothing under construction today. The lull is about to change now that the state has tackled two main impediments to bringing wind online: construction permissions and regulation of component transportation.

 

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