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Buckeye Wind Farm
Scioto Ridge Wind Farm
Scioto Ridge Wind Farm
Blue Creek Wind Farm
Timber Road II Wind Farm
Timber Road II Wind Farm
Timber Road Wind Farm
Timber Road Wind Farm
Timber Road III Wind Farm
Timber Road III Wind Farm
Hog Creek Wind Farm
Hog Creek Wind Farm
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Wind power projects in Ohio
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Wind power in Ohio has a long history. As of 2016, Ohio had 545 megawatts (MW) of utility-scale wind power installations, responsible for generating 1.1% of the state's electricity.[1] Over 1000 MW more were under construction or pending approval.[2] Some installations have become tourist attractions.[3][4] There has been a sudden increase in generating capacity, as the total wind power capacity in the state was just 9.7 MW in 2010.[5] By 2019, there were 738 MW of capacity, which generated 1.71% of Ohio's electricity.[6]

Ohio's first large wind farm, Timber Road II near Payne in northwest Ohio, opened on October 6, 2011.[7][8] It was surpassed in June 2012 by the 304 MW Blue Creek Wind Farm.[9]

History

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Photos of "Mr. Brush's Windmill Dynamo" from Scientific American, 1890[10]

Wind power in Ohio has a long (albeit discontinuous) history.

Brush's windmill dynamo

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Charles F. Brush designed one of world's earliest electricity-generating windmills in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1887–1888.[11] His engineering company built the "windmill dynamo" at his home. It operated from 1886 until 1900.[10] The Brush wind turbine had a rotor 56 feet (17 m) in diameter and was mounted on a 60-foot (18 m) tower, making it similar in size to some of the first commercial wind farm turbines of the 1980s. However, the machine was only rated at 12 kW; it turned relatively slowly since it had 144 blades. Brush used the connected dynamo either to charge a bank of batteries or to operate up to 100 incandescent light bulbs, three arc lamps, and various motors in his laboratory. The machine fell into disuse after 1900 when electricity became available from Cleveland's central stations, and was abandoned in 1908.[12]

NASA Lewis MOD series

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From 1974 to 1981, NASA's Glenn Research Center (then the Lewis Research Center) in Brook Park, Ohio, led the U.S. Wind Energy Program for large horizontal-axis wind turbines, designing a series of 13 experimental large horizontal-axis wind turbines. In conjunction with the United States Department of Energy, NASA developed and tested megawatt-class wind turbines. The program's goal was to develop the technology, and then turn it over to private industry. While none of the program's wind turbine designs saw mass commercialization, the tests generated valuable data and pioneered modern design concepts such as tubular towers and computer control of blade pitch and rotor yaw.

Most of the MOD-series wind turbines went to sites outside of Ohio, but the first unit, the MOD-0 operated at NASA's Plum Brook facility near Sandusky from 1975 to 1988.[13] Initially, the wind turbine had a lattice tower, a 38.1m diameter two-bladed rotor mounted downwind from the tower, and a capacity of 100 kW. Lockheed Corporation manufactured aluminum rotor blades. The discovery of severe stress resulting from the rotor blades passing through the tower's wind shadow led to several redesigns. In 1979, NASA rebuilt the MOD-0 with an upwind rotor mounted on a teetering hub, with a steel spar reinforcing the blades. In 1982, a tubular tower replaced the lattice tower. Finally, in 1985 NASA tested a single-bladed rotor with a teetering hub.[13] In 1981, two NASA Glenn engineers, Larry Viterna and Bob Corrigan, used the adjustable-pitch blade feature of the MOD-0 to invent an analytical method for calculating wind turbine output in high winds, which has since become widely used in the wind power industry as the Viterna method.[14][15]

  • Model and display board of NASA MOD-0 experimental wind turbine
    Model and display board of NASA MOD-0 experimental wind turbine
  • Constructing the MOD-0 in 1975
    Constructing the MOD-0 in 1975
  • MOD-0, initial configuration, at Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook station near Sandusky, Ohio
    MOD-0, initial configuration, at Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook station near Sandusky, Ohio
  • MOD-0, smoke test, downwind rotor configuration, 1982
    MOD-0, smoke test, downwind rotor configuration, 1982
  • MOD-0 research wind turbine in one-bladed configuration
    MOD-0 research wind turbine in one-bladed configuration

Wind Turbine Regulation

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In 2014, the Ohio General Assembly passed HB 483. This codified a wind turbine setback of 1,125 feet (343 m) from the property line for significant wind farms.[16] The change in wind turbine setbacks has discouraged investment of new wind farm development in the State of Ohio.[17]

Installed capacity and wind resources

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Five turbines of the Scioto Ridge Wind Farm in a zoomed narrow-angle shot, some of which are partially below the horizon due to distance and topography.
Scioto Ridge Wind Farm

The following table compares the growth in wind power installed nameplate capacity in megawatts (MW) for Ohio and the entire United States from 2002 through 2019.[18][6]

Year Ohio US
2002 0 4,687
2003 3.6 6,350
2004 7.2 6,723
2005 7.2 9,147
2006 7.4 11,575
2007 7.4 16,907
2008 7.4 25,410
2009 7.4 34,863
2010 9.6 40,267
2011 112 46,916
2012 428 60,005
2013 428 61,107
2014 435 65,880
2015 443 74,471
2016 545 82,171
2017 617 89,078
2018 729 96,487
2019 738 105,583
2020 864 122,478
Average annual wind power density map for Ohio at 50m above ground

One large undeveloped resource of wind in Ohio is Lake Erie.[19][20][21][22] Its shallow depth and shelter from hurricanes provide advantages in terms of both ease of construction as well as safety of the investment. Although land based wind farms frequently have lower siting costs, offshore wind farms usually have better wind, as open water lacks obstructions such as forests, buildings, and hills.

On February 11, 2010, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory released the first comprehensive update of the wind energy potential by state since 1993, showing that Ohio had potential to install 55 GW of onshore wind power nameplate capacity, generating 152 TWh annually.[23] For comparison, Ohio consumed 160.176 TWh of electricity in 2005;[24] the entire U.S. wind power industry was producing at an annual rate of approximately 50 TWh at the end of 2008; and Three Gorges Dam (the world's largest electricity-generating station) produced an average of 80 TWh/yr in 2008 and 2009.

Wind farms

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In 2008, Ohio had one utility-scale wind farm, one single large turbine wind power installation, and two more in development.

American Municipal Power Inc Wind Farm

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The AMP Wind Farm located at the following coordinates:(41°22′46″N 83°44′16″W / 41.379481°N 83.737707°W / 41.379481; -83.737707) west of Bowling Green in Wood County is Ohio's first utility-scale wind farm. It consists of four Vestas V80-1.8MW wind turbines giving a combined nameplate capacity of 7.2 MW.[5][25] The first two units came online in 2003, and the second two in 2004, next to the Wood County landfill. In 2015 the wind turbines were paid off.[26] Because the turbines are early models, the operators have had difficulty sourcing replacement parts.[27] The US$10 million wind farm's wind turbines are highly visible for miles in all directions, and have become a tourist attraction, regularly hosting busloads of school children. A solar-powered kiosk on the site gives data to visitors about the project, the current wind speed, and real-time power generation.[3]

Great Lakes Science Center

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The Great Lakes Science Center installed a reconditioned Vestas V27-225 kW wind turbine in 2006, outside its museum building on Cleveland's North Coast Harbor between Cleveland Browns Stadium and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (41°30′24″N 81°41′48″W / 41.506661°N 81.696769°W / 41.506661; -81.696769). The North Coast entertainment complex receives 1.5 million visitors per year, and the wind turbine appears regularly on local news broadcasts and Cleveland Browns NFL broadcasts, making it one of the world's most-viewed wind turbines.[4]

The wind turbine originally operated on a wind farm in Denmark, which resold the wind turbine while repowering to newer, larger wind turbines.[4][28] The ground around the wind turbine features an art display entitled Shadow and Light.[29] The display includes walkways that align with the wind turbine's shadow at solar noon and two hours, eleven minutes after solar noon, respectively. On the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, the wind turbine's shadow also aligns with the walkways by length.[29] Thus the wind turbine functions as a large gnomon in an incomplete sundial. The display includes boxes of light bulbs encased in concrete on one side of a plaza around the wind turbine's base, representing the amount of electricity consumed by the average American household in a year.

One Energy Wind for Industry projects

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Wind for Industry turbine built for Ball Corporation's metal division in Findlay, Ohio

Findlay, Ohio, based on-site distributed-generation wind energy company One Energy has developed and constructed nine Wind for Industry projects to date with three projects in construction as of October 2018. Wind for Industry describes wind energy projects in which utility-scale wind turbines are installed on-site and interconnected on a facility's side of their utility meter (a process known as distributed generation or behind-the-meter wind, which sometimes follows net metering[30]). These projects are designed to achieve a significant reduction of an industrial facility's electrical consumption from the grid. One Energy's on-site generation list includes:

Wind for Industry projects
Name Location Power Note
Cooper Farms’ Wind VW Van Wert, Ohio 4.5 MW Operating since 2011[31]
Haviland Wind Haviland, Ohio 4.5 MW Operating since 2012[32]
Ball Corporation's Zephyr Wind Project Findlay, Ohio 4.5 MW Operating since 2015
Whirlpool Corporation's Findlay Wind Farm Findlay, Ohio 3.0 MW Operating since 2015[33]
Marathon Petroleum's Harpster Wind Harpster, Ohio 1.5 MW Operating since 2016[34]
Whirlpool Corporation's Marion Wind Project Marion, Ohio 4.5 MW Operating since 2017[35]
Whirlpool Corporation's Ottawa Wind Project Ottawa, Ohio 1.5 MW Operating since 2018[36]
Valfilm Corporation's Findlay Wind Farm Findlay, Ohio 3.0 MW Operating since 2018[37]
Whirlpool Corporation's Greenville Wind Farm Greenville, Ohio 4.5 MW Powering a KitchenAid facility. Operating since 2018[38]
Autoliv-Nissin Brake Systems Findlay Wind Project Findlay, Ohio 1.5 MW In Construction 2018[39]

Wind generation

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Ohio Wind Generation (GWh, Million kWh)
Year Total Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2005 15 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
2006 14 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
2007 16 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
2008 16 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3
2009 14 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 2
2010 13 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1
2011 198 1 1 1 2 1 1 12 13 26 28 50 62
2012 986 113 94 117 111 50 68 42 36 52 119 72 112
2013 1,146 140 107 114 111 102 59 49 36 55 93 143 137
2014 1,154 168 96 119 136 96 63 56 36 36 100 145 103
2015 1,202 127 109 107 120 95 80 47 45 56 128 140 148
2016 1,246 162 140 127 113 87 74 48 40 57 98 123 177
2017 1,589 163 171 172 154 141 125 62 54 65 143 162 177
2018 1,751 225 163 186 148 135 90 67 75 102 179 183 198
2019 2,044 245 190 209 212 165 154 92 85 96 179 178 239
2020 2,287 221 212 203 198 209 167 96 88 147 196 279 271
2021 2,598 189 221 284 221 194 202 117 105 240 205 293 327
2022 3,151 312 354 364 325 280 187 149 110 140 287 347 296
2023 965 279 338 348
Source:[40]

See also

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References

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  2. ^ Ohio Power Siting Board Process Archived 2016-01-21 at the Wayback Machine page 18
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  23. ^ "Estimates of Windy Land Area and Wind Energy Potential by State for Areas >= 30% Capacity Factor at 80m". National Renewable Energy Laboratory. 2010-02-04. Archived from the original (XLS) on 2011-03-10. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
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