From Buffalo, NY's The Buffalo News:
Four of NYS Thruway's costly wind turbines stand idle. Why?
Tens of thousands of people every day drive past the towering wind turbines posted at four Thruway exits between Eden and the Pennsylvania state line.
But no matter how windy the day might be, those two-blade turbines stand motionless.
Just a few years after the New York State Thruway Authority spent about $5 million on five turbines, four of them stand dormant. And a spokesperson indicated the Thruway Authority does not know when they will become operational again.
"They are currently offline waiting for replacement parts and/or maintenance," spokesperson Jennifer Givner wrote in an email.
And the timeline and the source:
But between October 2017 and January 2018, all of them except for the turbine at the Westfield interchange were taken offline. Givner said she did not know how much energy the turbines generated while they were operational.
The four inoperable turbines were manufactured by a French company, Vergnet, which declared itself insolvent a year ago.
So they failed in less than one year and now the parts are unavailable. What's more, the turbines were manufactured by a French company so the profit and the jobs went out of the United States.
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