The City of Evanston has signed the Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement in 2006 that pledges the City to reduce GHG emissions to 7% below 1990 levels by 2012.

Capitalizing on the unique combination that Evanston has the only two-mile stretch of non residential Illinois lakefront property at the southern end of Lake Michigan, has very shallow water depths, and excellent clear wind, the proposed wind farm would be located offshore and inline with Northwestern’s two-mile shoreline.

The size of the windfarm would be 200MW (forty 5MW turbines). Given the location’s excellent wind rating it is estimated that the wind farm would abate approximately 450,000 tons of CO2, which is 336% of the CO2 reduction goal of the ECAP, and they would produce enough power for at least 50,000 households.

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