They're up and they're spinning. Dozens of wind turbines in Grant County are generating electricity, though they haven't been without problems.

Crossing into Virginia, there's a proposal for about 130 wind turbines to be built in the George Washington National Forest, as well as a much smaller operation in Highland County. However, these projects haven't developed without some strong opposition.

The process takes years. Now, phase one is almost complete, 80 turbines are spinning in Mount Storm, West Virginia. Still, some local homeowners, like Bruce Halgren, are challenging the project in court.

"We weren't really upset when we first heard about it because they weren't going to be close, you know? They weren't going to impact the aesthetics of the lake," says Halgren.

Halgren says one of his chief concerns is the devaluation of his property.

"We moved here, we used our life savings to buy and then build our house on the lake," says Halgren.

Charles Goldizen is a former county commissioner who enthusiastically supports the project. He points to the potential benefits of the wind farm for the county.

"It gives the landowners the opportunity to be able to generate some revenue, to be able to hold the land and be able to pay the taxes within the county," says Goldizen. "Plus, it generates a tax base for the county."

The turbines have a maximum height of 381 feet when including the 100-foot-long blades.

Dominion Power and Shell Energy are running the project. Each turbine has the capacity to produce about two megawatts of electricity per year. To compare, the Dominion-operated power station near the site produces about 1,650 megawatts of power.

The electricity produced at the wind farm goes to the system's central grid.

"This is part of the portfolio of generating systems that are needed to take care of the demand for electricity, not just now but as it increases in the future," says Bob Orndorff, managing director of state and local government affairs for Dominion.

"I don't know what's going to happen in the long run with the wind turbines," says Halgren. "It's certainly not the same area we moved in to."

Phase two of the wind farm project, which consists of about an additional 50 turbines, is expected to come online by early 2009. Dominion officials say, by 2022, they want 12 percent of their base-year electricity sales to come from renewable energy sources like wind.