AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s largest wind energy developer has come back to the state with a scaled-back plan to build a wind farm on Bowers Mountain in eastern Maine, proposing 16 instead of 27 turbines and placing them in less visible locations.

First Wind’s proposal is now under review by state regulators, six months after it was rejected by the former Land Use Regulation Commission. The commission invited First Wind to come back with a revised plan. Because of changes in the law that transformed LURC into the Land Use Planning Commission, the state Department of Environmental Protection is now the principal reviewing agency for the project.

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