More Wind Power?

Mainebiz reports on a Texas Company looking to build a wind farm.

Houston-based Horizon Energy is examining a wind farm site near Bridgewater, but won't disclose any other potential sites in eastern Aroostook County, according to the Bangor Daily News. The company's long-term plans envision 400 turbines in the county, the paper said.

The company, doing business locally as Aroostook Wind Energy, has been considering northern Maine for wind power development for the past two years, but it recently began approaching land owners about acquiring or leasing land for the turbines and transmission lines, the paper said.

Horizon has not submitted any plans to regulators in Maine, but a project manager for the company told the Daily News it hopes to begin construction on the first wind farm by 2010."