BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. – Virginia’s first onshore wind farm is no longer just a vision. The Rocky Forge Wind Project, located along North Mountain in Botetourt County, is now visibly under construction — with turbines already standing as the project moves closer to producing power later this year.
At a signing event Saturday, developers and community leaders marked the milestone by signing a turbine blade as construction continues.
A decade in the making
The project has been years in the works, facing a series of starts and stops before finally breaking ground.
“It’s so exciting because it’s been 10 years of start, stop, up, down, difficult, good, you know, and now it’s happening,” said Dan Crawford, chair of the Sierra Club Roanoke Group…