Indiana's wind farm buildout grinding to a halt

MUNCIE -- Indiana long ago put out the welcome mat for the ethanol, whose capacity is close to 1 billion gallons of production a year in the Hoosier state.

But Indiana has not yet done the same thing for the wind energy industry.

As a result, construction of wind farms in Indiana is grinding to a halt this year after four years of building.

Longtime plans to construct a wind farm in Randolph County have been put on hold, and a wind farm is being built in Ohio across the border from Fort Wayne because of Ohio's pro-wind policy.