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Lynch, A., R. Anderson, and S. Unwin. 2010. Development of a GIS-Based Model for Evaluating Visual Impacts of Offshore Wind Farms. U.S. Department of Energy. Environmental Risk Evaluation System (ERES) for Offshore Wind, Appendix A, p. 1-14. http://www.pnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-20020.pdf Authors of this study developed a GIS-based metric (based on two factors: visual magnitude and site-specific sensitivity) to quantify the visual impacts of a wind farm in the proposed development site of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA.

American Wind Energy Association. 2007. U.S. Wind Energy Projects. http://www.awea.org/projects/&nbsp&nbsp This database provides information on existing and under construction wind energy projects by state.

D'Agnese, Joseph. 2007. Falling in Love With Wind: How a Small Farm Town Traded its Dairy Cows for Renewable Energy. On Earth; 29(2): 14-21. This article relates how New York State farmers started putting windmills on their farmland. 

GPCo inc. 2006. Le développement de l'industrie éolienne au Québec. A report presented to the Canadian Wind Energy Association. 14pp. http://www.canwea.ca/images/uploads/File/Resources/dev_eolienQcjuin2006.pdf This study assesses the impact of the wind industry in Quebec. The first part provides an overview of the wind industry's development to date in Québec, and the second part compares the approach of Québec with that of other jurisdictions.

Latimer, Corinne. 2006. Planning for wind energy in rural Ontario: a comparison of the German and Danish experience to Huron, Grey and Bruce County. Master's thesis, University of Guelph. Description not available.

Minnesota Department of Commerce. 2006. Environmental Report: High Prairie II Wind Project. Minnesota Department of Commerce, Energy Facilities Permitting. http://energyfacilities.puc.state.mn.us/documents/18884/High%20Prairie%20Wind%20Farm%20II%20ER%20022207.pdf This is the environmental report of a wind project in Minnesota.

Kher, Unmesh and Marc Hequet. 2005. War of the Winds. Time(166)16. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1115667,00.html This article describes the development of wind energy on Lake Michigan's eastern shore.

Canadian Wind Energy Association. 2004. Canadian Wind Energy Case Studies: Toronto, Ontario. http://www.canwea.ca/images/uploads/File/Wind_Energy_Policy/Economic_Impacts/Toronto_Case_Study.pdf This case study describes the economic benefits of wind energy development in the Toronto region.

Environmental Law and Policy Center. 2004. Midwest/Great Plains Wind Power Project Map. http://www.elpc.org/documents/WindMap2004.pdf This map shows the locations of all existing and planned wind power projects in the Midwest region as of 2004.

Caddet Renewable Energy. 1997. Lely Off-shore Wind Farm in the Netherlands. IEA; OECD: Technical Brochure No. 61. http://lib.kier.re.kr/caddet/retb/no61.pdf This technical brochure describes the only freshwater offshore wind farm in the world.

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