Community & Lifestyle, Hagerman, ID

Fossil Gulch Wind Park Video Tour

Watching windmills being erected on the horizon has been fascinating over the past few years as the number of windmills have slowly increased.  Trucks go through Hagerman with the enormous shaft and blade; so large that only one part per trailer is hauled.  From a distance I find the appearance of the windmills on the distant horizon to be very pleasing with their interesting geometric design.  Up close they are much larger than anticipated as you can see in this video from Man Source posted of the Fossil Gulch Wind Park.  The author said, “this is video of the Wood River Community Advisory Committee trip to the Fossil Gulch Wind Park on January 18, 2007. The site near Hagerman, Idaho, built in 2005, has seven 250′ tall wind turbines which produce a total of 10 megawatts.”

In a presentation to the Greater Twin Falls Association of REALTORS yesterday, Jan Rogers, Executive Director of the Southern Idaho Economic Development Organization said that 160 megawatts of renewable energy is coming out of this region alone into the Idaho Power system.