Eight working windmills in the Steel Winds wind farm at the old Bethlehem Steel plant site in Lackawanna debuted recently as the country's first "urban" wind farm and the world's first attempt at using the Clipper Windpower's [1] massive Liberty turbines.

The wind farm is the first of its kind in the United States to be built on a former industrial site and the first to go up along the shores of the American side of the Great Lakes.

Mark B. Mitskovski, project manager of Steel Winds, told The Buffalo News [2] [3] that Steel Winds is considering expanding its project and building as many as 19 additional windmills on the old Bethlehem Steel property.

Steel Winds is viewed as a symbol of the future of renewable energy and a model for the possibilities of urban renewal.