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>Constellation celebrates launch of W. Maryland wind farm

>By Scott Calvert, The Baltimore Sun

7:54 a.m. EDT, July 19, 2011
Constellation Energy is throwing a party late Tuesday morning in Garrett County to celebrate the launch of Maryland’s first electricity-producing commercial wind farm. The project’s 28 massive turbines rise along an eight-mile stretch of Backbone Mountain and can be seen for miles.

Although Baltimore-based Constellation began producing power from the turbines in January, the ribbon-cutting ceremony is a formal acknowledgement that the $140 million renewable energy project is up and running, a company spokesman says.

“It was an opportunity to reach out to the people and groups and communities that helped us achieve this,” Constellation spokesman Kevin Thornton said. “It is the first wind farm that’s gone commercial in the state of Maryland.”

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