Note: This is fourth and last in a series of blogs highlighting recent progress in onshore and offshore wind energy and examining some of the opportunities, challenges and threats the industry faces. The series was originally published bythe Natural Resources Defense Council。

In the past months, there has been a flurry of legislative proposals at the state and federal level to restrict wind energy near military facilities. These proposals, ostensibly designed to protect military operations from the danger of wind turbines, are poorly planned and have the potential to hinder the wind industry’s impressive growth in the United States — and the thousands of jobs it brings with it.

军方已经在案件上。

要开始，风电场确实会影响军事行动。例如，涡轮机可能会干扰低级飞行训练路线，测试对电磁噪声和军用雷达系统敏感的军用设备。这些效果长期以来一直是着名的，并考虑到军事和风能开发商。

While wind turbines could theoretically impact military training and operations, there is little likelihood of that happening for any given project. The Department of Defense (DoD) already runs its own选址净化房并通过其过程，国防部和基础指挥官可以咨询接近涡轮机的任何影响的开发人员。

Conflicts with the military mission can be mitigated by shifting turbine placement, upgrading radars and their software, or installing a supplementary radar system to eliminate potential coverage losses caused by turbines (so-called ‘backfill’ radars). If the DoD still objects to a project, they can appeal to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to block any development, and to public knowledge,no wind farm已经建立了军队的反对意见。

寻找问题的解决方案

In fact, there are usually few significant problems to begin with, leading the DoD Siting Clearinghouse to state that “the vast majority of projects present no unacceptable impact to DoD mission” after reviewing hundreds of projects. Despite the efficacy of DoD procedures and the success the Clearinghouse has had in facilitating wind development across the country, there have been numerous attempts by state legislatures to circumvent this process.

一种2016 Texas study found that turbine impact on military readiness could not be entirely eliminated, though the authors admitted that they focused on worst-case scenarios and that their radar analyses could not account for the impact of buildings or trees.

尽管author-admitted问题分析sis, and that the DoD can block projects they have actual objections to, the Texas legislature began a legislative attack on wind energy near military bases. Despite the DoD reporting that fixed standoff distances are largely useless, the Texas legislature stripped tax incentives from future wind developments within 30 nautical miles of military aviation facilities.

Texas’ action triggered related legislation in Oklahoma, New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, and at the federal level. In Oklahoma, state lawmakers have试图插入自己进入流程并替代国防部审判和经过验证的程序的国家委员会。一种更多Draconian账单在纽约将在军用航空设施的40英里内全面禁止风能的发展。NRDC came out strongly against this bill, with Kit Kennedy pointing out that the ban would exclude 5,000 square miles from possible development and doom New York’s attempt to meet its goal of generating 50% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. Thankfully, both Oklahoma and New York’s bills have died in committee or conference.

但这种误导的立法已经在田纳西州和北卡罗来纳进展。田纳西州通过2018年3月通过暂停暂停风能发展，以研究风能周围的其他国家立法。北卡罗来纳州的化石 - 燃料友好的共和党立法机构在2013年掌权时臭名昭着地通过了令人难以置信的反风法规，最近在亚马逊风电场的摊牌 - 该州的第一个主要风能现场。

一种fter failing to stop the development over perceived threats to regional radar systems (the developers had already worked with the DoD to ensure that their farm would not be an issue) and even恳求特朗普政府to intervene, a group of Republican state lawmakers attempted to pass even more restrictive anti-wind legislation. In July, Democratic Governor Roy Cooper signed an energy reform bill that was friendly to the solar industry but included a last-minute, Republican-pushed amendment creating a moratorium against wind energy developments through 2021.

暂停的暂停，表面上保护军事行动，培训和准备，是不必要的，有害的，和国防部不支持。军方不需要代表繁重的繁重干预，可以保证自己的行动;例如，它重新安置了一个Pantego，N.C.，干扰飞行路径的建议，并阻止了Hales Lake，N.C.，干扰军事雷达操作的项目。

Congress following suit with their own bad bills

There have been efforts to inflict damage on wind developments near military bases at the federal level as well. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Representative Blake Farenthold (R-NY) imitated their state-level counterparts by introducing heavy-handed, ill-advised bills to prevent wind energy developments from receiving renewable energy tax credits within a certain range of a military aviation or radar facility.

目前，玉米然必须观看此类立法，特别是如果扩大可再生能源的反对者继续部署作为国家安全立法的反风策略。

Interference in this sphere is unwise: a staggering 35% of today’s wind energy developments (representing between $33 and $51 billion in investment) are located within 50 miles of a military installation. Texas alone, the point of origin for much of this anti-wind legislation, is home to over $10 billion in wind energy investments near military facilities. As legislators in states like Tennessee or North Carolina consider the future of wind energy in their districts, they should know that wind energy is not a threat to national security. It is an essential source of renewable energy and good paying jobs, and should be a vital part of the US grid and economy.

通过清洁能量对手来说，立法者不应误入歧途，以介入国防部流程。以这种方式使用军队作为防止清洁风能的政治武器是肮脏的业务;instead, those elected officials should rely on the prevailing facts surrounding these issues, and lean into the rapid transition to a 21st century clean energy economy powered by wind, solar, and energy efficiency (not put up barriers to that clean energy future).

基督徒斯特林海格是NRDC的赫伯特Scoville Jr.和平伙伴。