Welcome to the Windy Island Campaign

 

What can wind power do for you, your local business, and your community? A campaign designed to develop and implement comprehensive and effective wind turbine codes for Long Island so you can take advantage of our island's great wind resource.

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"Renewables should be a growing component of our capacity to meet energy needs of our customers because they are critical in addressing our increasing concerns about the planet's changing climate."

- Kevin Law, CEO of LIPA

"Wind turbines are the energy source of the future. It is important that we take steps now to promote and grow alternative energy options within our Town. "

- John Edwards, Councilmen of Islip

"Small wind generators are a great way to generate clean, emission-free electricity, and, in the right location, they can be very cost-effective. It all depends if the turbine can be mounted high enough to capture that wind."

- Gordian Raacke, Executive Director of RELI

Wind Energy: Our Future

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Wind Energy is a basic technology which utilizes rotor blades to catch the wind and spin a shaft lined with permanent magnets. These magnets rotate through a wire coil inducing a current. This current is then inverted to provide usable alternating current for electricity.

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Our Dirty Energy Problem

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Hubbert Curve: We have already surpassed peak global oil discovery.
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Fossil Fuels: Can we let oil jeopardize our national security?
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LIPA has proposed an energy portfolio goal of 25% renewables by 2025.

We can no longer allow the barrel of oil to define our standard of living, and our national security. Oil is running out, and our environment's health is suffering. It is time to turn toward a clean solution: Wind Energy.

» The Energy Problem

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Windy Island Campaign

Contact: Jessica Bloom



E-mail: info@windyIsland.org

E-mail: jbloom@windyIsland.org

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Latest Town Codes

Islip Wind Energy Systems Code

The Town Board recently amended the Zoning ordinance in an effort to allow accessory wind turbines as a supplemental source of power for properties across the Town.
This action was spurred by many local constituent requests for turbines along with the growing larger concerns regarding global climate change and our reliance on fossil fuels as a primary energy source.

As with all public policy changes, a careful analysis was done to measure any impacts that accessory turbines may have on neighboring properties. The resulting ordinance strictly regulates the height, location, and noise of any turbine.

» Read about current town wind code.

Latest Blog Post

1.21.2010

2010 Brings Long Island's Largest

The renewable energy community on Long Island is buzzing because there has been a new addition to the North Fork skyline. Standing at 121 feet tall, the Northwind 100 is the largest wind turbine to be installed on Long Island yet. The proud owner of the 100 kilowatt turbine is Half Hallow Nurseries, a farm comprising 1200 acres of Laurel, NY.

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A Clean Vision


» Your Landscape