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REGION

Dominion’s gas rate to be $5.13 as of Oct. 16

CLEVELAND — Dominion East Ohio said its rate for customers who don’t buy natural gas from other suppliers will be $5.13 per thousand cubic feet starting Oct. 16. That is an increase of 88.7 cents, or 21 percent, from the September rate. The rate in October 2008 was $9.80. The rate, which is called the Standard Choice Offer, changes monthly based on market prices for natural gas.

NATION

Canadian company buys offshore wind farm

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah company has announced it is selling the development rights for a sprawling wind farm on the Canadian side of Lake Erie.

Wasatch Wind Inc. says it’s turning over the project on undisclosed terms to Calgary, Alberta-based Canadian Hydro Developers Inc.

Park City, Utah-based Wasatch Wind says the wind farm would be the largest offshore project of its kind in the world, three to 18 miles off the Ontario coastline. It would anchor at least 2,000 giant wind turbines cranking out as much as 4,400 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 2 million homes.

World’s largest wind farm running at full capacity

DALLAS — The world’s largest wind farm officially got up and running Thursday, with all 627 towering wind turbines churning out electricity across 100,000 acres of West Texas farmland.

The Roscoe Wind Complex, which began construction in 2007 and sprawls across four counties near Roscoe, is generating its full capacity of 781.5 megawatts, enough to power 230,000 homes, the German company E.ON Climate and Renewables North America said.

From Vindicator staff and wire reports