State Awards $14 Million In Grants To Somerset County Wind Farm

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

January 27, 2012 | 11:00 AM

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A Cambria County wind farm

A Somerset County wind farm will receive nearly $14 million in state grant money, according to the Tribune-Review:

EverPower Wind Holdings Inc., a New York investment firm that has an office in Lawrenceville, will receive a $12.65 million Renewable Energy Program grant, the state Department of Community and Economic Development said yesterday. Twin Ridges Wind Farm, a nearly 140-megawatt operation, is to be built in Northampton, Southampton, Larimer and Greensville townships in Somerset County.
The $238.8 million wind farm is expected to be running by the end of the year, officials said.
EverPower received the bulk of about $13.8 million the state announced for six projects across six counties for clean, alternative and renewable energy sources. All of the projects are expected to generate nearly $232 million in additional private economic investment, with the vast majority — $226.2 million — in Somerset County, the state said.