East Hill WInd Farm News Archive >Back to News Archive 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 at a cost of about $80 million. If everything goes according to plan, the turbines would go up in the spring and summer of 2007, and by fall they would be turning wind into electricity, according to David Little, project manager. "We're still putting all the pieces together, but we'd like to have an open house in Cherry Valley this fall to show people what we want to propose" Little said Tuesday. Then in the coming months, the firm will take its proposal to the Cherry Valley Town Planning Board and begin work on an environmental impact statement to address the project's effect on the community. "With a project of this size, we want to do a full EIS and that takes quite a while, so I don't want to be held to a completion date," Little said. Driving this project is the apparently brisk, steady wind that flows over the ridges between Cherry Valley and Sharon Springs. Last January, Reunion erected a meteorological tower to test the wind on a hill off Route 50, east of the village of Cherry Valley. Results so far confirm what had been suspected from a previous test by another developer and anecdotal information: "It would seem the wind is outstanding," Little said. >Back to News Archive