New Hampshire Wind Watch (NHWW) was formed in 2011 by a group of residents who all lived in various towns in the Newfound Lake/Cardigan Mountain region.

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The organization was formed in response to four different proposed industrial scale wind plants owned by foreign companies. 

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These proposed foreign owned wind projects in total called for over one hundred wind turbines that would have required blasting, bulldozing and deforesting the ridgelines surrounding Newfound Lake and the Cardigan Mountain region. 

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Each of the one hundred turbines was proposed to be 500 feet tall, the height of a 50 story building, and weigh well over 400 tons each. Residents in the tourism dependent area, an area of pristine beauty, like much of NH, rallied together, led by NHWW, to fight this proposed infestation of gargantuan wind turbines. It wasn’t easy by any stretch, but nine different communities rallied with us to fight these poorly conceived wind plant proposals, and we won. 

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In the process, we learned a lot about the New England electric grid (ISO-NE) and how/why industrial scale wind energy has significant shortcomings as a reliable and consistent energy source. 

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Since that time, NHWW has worked with other communities throughout NH to provide information and resources regarding the problems and issues with proposed industrial wind plants. 

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In addition to providing local support, New Hampshire Wind Watch has an active presence in supplying legislators with relevant information and materials from credible sources, like the EIA and ISO-NE, to help our lawmakers better understand the energy markets and why/how low capacity, non-dispatchable renewable energy forms need to be understood for their limitations not just their marketing. 

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Additionally, New Hampshire Wind Watch has provided information and testimony to the regulatory bodies, the SEC and the PUC, which are more actively involved in specific energy project siting decisions than legislators are. 

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Lastly, we monitor the ISO-NE queue and the FAA website (wind turbines are so huge that the FAA has to be alerted to a proposed project).  This way, we can ensure that no part of NH has to face a surprise onslaught of foreign (or domestic) wind plant companies looking to site turbines in environmentally sensitive regions. Turbines may negatively affect regions which are tourism dependent and in communities that don’t believe the wind plants belong there. 

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New Hampshire Wind Watch is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to protecting and preserving the environment as well as local ecosystems in NH from poorly sited energy plants.