Regional planning commissioners Wednesday night voted against a seven-turbine wind power project in Swanton. The wind farm would have a combined generating capacity of 20 megawatts and stand at least 400 feet tall.

The Orleans County Planning Board voted in favor of revisions to the wind energy facilities law in Yates that would ban wind turbines from within 3 miles of the Lake Ontario shoreline and also require bigger property setbacks of at least half a mile.

New York State Senator Rob Ortt (R-North Tonawanda) today introduced legislation that would make it illegal to erect wind turbines within 40 miles of military installations, such as the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station. The legislation is in response to Apex Clean Energy’s proposed Lighthouse Wind Project in the towns of Yates and Somerset to construct approximately 70 wind turbines more than 600 feet high. Local officials and residents have voiced concerns over the project and have raised the possibility that if installed, the windmills could put the future of the Niagara Falls air base at risk.

A plan to build a 17-turbine wind farm on Dan's Mountain was dealt a serious blow when a judge issued a proposed order Wednesday that would effectively kill the project. Chief Public Utility Law Judge Terry J. Romine found that "in weighing the benefits against the adverse impacts that are unable to be mitigated ... I find that the benefits that may accrue to the public at large by construction of the wind project do not justify or offset subjecting the local community to the adverse impacts that will result from the wind projects

The Almer Township board of trustees denied an application for special land use permit that would have cleared the way for a Florida-based company to erect 19 wind turbines in the community. The board voted 5-1 after the Almer Township planning commission approved a motion on Jan. 4 to deny the application submitted by Juno Beach, Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources L.L.C On Feb 15, NextEra filed a fedeeral lawsuit against the township.

The VT PSB adopted a new rule which will limit noise from wind turbines to 35 dBA at night. It also adopted the 10H rule.

Town adopted an ordinance declaring wind projects a "public nuisance" and prohibits them from being built within 2 miles of the town's borders.

Kent County News dated 01/11/17, announced that a utility law judge for the Public Service Commission has proposed denying the application for the Mills Branch Solar project in Kent County for a Certificate of public Convenience and Necessity. The proposed order would effectively halt 60 megawatt/370-acre project, which has generated local controversy. Kent argued that the project went against its zoning, which does include sites for utility scale solar projects. The project’s developer Apex Clean Energy, argued the PSC could preempt local zoning.

The Hudson Valley town of Copake in Columbia County has gone to court to block construction of Hecate Energy's 60-megawatt Shepherd’s Run Solar farm project. In 2017, Copake enacted a law prohibiting solar projects on ten acres or more.

The newly elected board in Ellington Township passed a one-year moratorium on allowing wind turbines into the township, and their counterparts in Almer Township could do the same next month.