According to the Roanoke Times, a Chicago-based clean energy company envisions a wind farm of 15 turbines atop a portion of Poor Mountain in Roanoke County. Invenergy's power-generating windmills would be 443 feet from base to the highest tip of a blade and occupy ridge lines along what has been described as one of Virginia's windiest land-based wind power generation sites.  Bent Mountain resident Ed Elswick, a member of the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors, said he thinks the wind farm's development could be a good thing for the county. It would provide green energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and might even improve the appearance of Poor Mountain, he said.

An Invenergy official repeatedly emphasized that the Poor Mountain proposal is in its preliminary stages and that Invenergy plans to communicate early and often with county officials, Bent Mountain residents, officials for the Blue Ridge Parkway and others.

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