Wind Turbine

At least one company is no longer interested in bidding on a chance to develop a floating offshore wind project off the Southern Oregon coast, and others may also have backed out.

If voters decide in November to keep the cap-and-invest program, the state has plans that could bring the technology to its coastal waters.

A renewable energy facility in Oregon that combines solar power, wind power and massive batteries to store the energy generated there will be the first utility-scale plant of its kind in North America.

Oregon's Public Health Division acknowledges that noise from wind turbine blades may cause health problems among nearby homeowners. That's according to a new draft report. But the agency does not intend to take action against the burgeoning wind power industry.