East Hill Wind Farm News Archive Reunion: CV electric bills to drop with wind 11/30/06 Daily Star, Tom Grace If Reunion Power's proposed East Hill Wind Farm is built, the firm said it is willing to reduce all residential electric bills in the town of Cherry Valley by about 50 percent for the next 20 years... Reunion Power Press Release (PDF download) 11/29/06 East Hill Wind Farm LLC is working with NYSEG Solutions in an effort that will result in the proposed East Hill Wind Farm providing electricity via NYSEG Solutions, directly to participating homes in Cherry Valley for twenty (20) years. Reunion joins larger wind firm to target CV 10/25/06 Daily Star, Tom Grace Reunion Power, which has proposed building 24 wind turbines in Cherry Valley, has joined forces with a larger firm, Edison Mission Energy.... Reunion Power Press Release (PDF download) 7/05/06 Reunion Power LLC announced today that it is in advanced discussions with a well-known New York based electricity supplier regarding an arrangement that would provide a twenty-five per cent electricity discount to Cherry Valley households, as part of the East Hill Wind Farm economic benefits package. Reunion unveils PILOT proposal 06/29/06 Cooperstown Crier, Jim Austin Reunion Power this week submitted a proposed tax package for the 24-turbine wind farm it hopes to develop three miles east of Cherry Valley on East Hill... Company offers cash for CV wind power 6/28/06 Daily Star, Tom Grace Cherry Valley, NY - Reunion Power has proposed paying at least $300,000 a year in lieu of taxes if it is allowed to build 24 wind turbines in Cherry Valley.... Reunion Power Press Release (PDF download) 6/27/06 Reunion Power LLC has submitted a proposed tax package for its planned East Hill Wind Farm, to be located three miles east of the Village of Cherry Valley. The package would bring over $7.5 million in revenue over a 20-year period to the Cherry Valley community, approximately $375,000 per year to local government and taxing authorities. The Free Center Press Release (PDF download) 5/24/06 New report finds no evidence of impacts on property values from wind farm. Bard Center for Environmental Policy - Report prepared by Ben Hoen, MS (PDF download) May 2006 This report analyzed property values surrounding a 20-turbine windfarm, constructed in 2001, in Madison County, New York to establish if any effects actually exist, and to set standards for future research. Reunion Power Press Release (PDF download) 5/11/06 Reunion Power has commissioned the lifting of three large helium-filled balloons from three locations on the East Hill in the Town of Cherry Valley, in an effort to verify and expand upon visual simulations previously presented to the community for the East Hill Wind Farm. No wind turbines on Cape Wycoff 12/22/05 Cooperstown Crier, Jim Austin Cherry Valley, NY - Reunion Power has decided to pull the plug on its efforts to development a wind farm on the Cape Wycoff ridge in Cherry Valley. The company will continue to work toward siting as many as two dozen wind turbines on East Hill... Reunion Power Press Release (PDF download) 12/14/05 Reunion Power, LLC the company which has been developing a wind farm in Cherry Valley, has decided to exclusively focus its local efforts on the East Hill Wind Farm. Open Letter to Save Upstate NY.org (PDF download) 10/10/05, Douglas L. Pfeister Response to selective claims made on the Save Upstate New York Website (www.SaveUpstateNY.org) N.J. company wants to build 24 Turbines in Cherry Valley 9/24/05 Daily Star, Tom Grace Cherry Valley, NY - Reunion Power of Montvale, N.J., is getting ready to unveil its plans to erect as many as 24 wind turbines on a ridge of hills in eastern Cherry Valley... Reunion: East Hill Wind Turbine Project Moving Right Along 9/02/05 The Freeman's Journal, Chris Lott Cherry Valley, NY - Officials with Reunion Power, the company studying the potential for wind-generated energy in Cherry Valley, said this week that one of two local sites - East Hill - shows great promise, and plans toward a development proposal there are progressing. Cherry Valley Residents Tour Fenner Wind Farm 6/24/05 The Freeman's Journal, Deborah Walkie Cherry Valley, NY - About 20 area residents loaded into a small bus parked in Cherry Valley last Saturday morning and embarked together on an hour-and-a-half drive to tour the Fenner Wind Power Facility in Madison County. Reunion hosts a turbine tour 6/23/05 Cooperstown Crier, Jim Austin Cherry Valley, NY - Reunion Power took a busload of people on a tour of the 20 turbines in the town Fenner Saturday to show them which way the wind blows. Wind-measuring tower raised in Cherry Valley 1/20/05 Daily Star, Tom Grace Cherry Valley, NY - A tower with equipment to measure wind speed and direction along a ridge of hills east of the village of Cherry Valley was inched into position Wednesday.