Something’s Changing in North Carolina: First Major Wind Project in the South Breaks Ground

Big news from North Carolina – wind company Iberdola and retail giant Amazon broke ground on a new wind farm in northeastern North Carolina that’s not only the first major wind farm in the state, but the first major wind project in the South.

It’s an empty field now, but this area in northeastern North Carolina will soon be home to some towering wind turbines that will provide 208 megawatts of clean energy – enough to power 60,000 homes – and Amazon will buy that electricity to help meet its goal of being 100 percent powered by renewable energy.

This wind farm is being built in part of North Carolina’s Pasquotank and Perquimans Counties known as “the desert” because it’s a huge area of open, flat land “couldn’t be more perfect for a wind farm.”

North Carolina is already home to a strong clean energy industry, with more than 32 companies and 50 facilities involved in the wind industry supply chain alone. “We have been making clean energy components for turbines that have been sent to Iowa, Texas, and places all across the globe,” said Molly Diggins, state director of Sierra Club North Carolina. “With this infrastructure, it makes sense for us to build wind energy projects right here in North Carolina.”

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