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SOMERSET - Robert Will was busy tending to his dairy farm in Somerset County three years ago when he was asked to help launch what is now touted as the world's fastest growing form of electricity generation - wind energy.
On a wind-swept knoll overlooking the Pennsylvania Turnpike, state Public Utility Commission Chairman Glen R. Thomas "flipped the switch" Wednesday and started the six wind turbines of the 15-megawatt Somerset Wind Farm.

The Somerset project and its sister wind farm, the nine-megawatt, 10-turbine Mill Run Wind Farm in Fayette County, make up the largest wind project in the eastern United States.

The two wind farms, which combined produce 24 megawatts of electricity, will also help to nearly triple the amount of wind energy in the eastern United States, supplying enough emission-free electricity annually to power 8,200 Pennsylvania homes.

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