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Lackawanna, New York, USA - The managing director of BQ Energy, Paul Curran, 50, has overseen what he describes as the first large-scale wind project inside an American city ... Earlier this summer his Putnam County-based company, working with UPC Wind of Newton, Mass., placed eight wind turbines on the site of an old Bethlehem Steel mill in Lackawanna, N.Y., a suburb south of Buffalo.
With blades reaching higher than the Statue of Liberty, this wind farm can provide the power needs for about 7,000 homes, he said.
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