Wind power may just be too noisy for homeowners to handle.

The Huffington Post reported today on the latest windpower lawsuit, brought by several homeowners in Maine against the Fox Island Electric Cooperative, the local utility that has installed three turbines on the small island of Vinalhaven in Maine’s Penobscot Bay.

The plaintiffs claim that the utility harassed them and ignored their complaints of noise pollution. In fact, they claim, the noise from the turbines violates state ordinances.

Although many Maine residents have long supported industrial-scale clean technology, the noise pollution may be too loud for comfort.

“In the first 10 minutes, our jaws dropped to the ground,” a homeowner in the area, Art Lindgren told the Huffington Post. “Nobody in the area could believe it. They were so loud.”

The complaints have gained traction just as thousands of wind industry participants gather in Anaheim, California for Windpower 2011, the American Wind Power Association‘s annual conference and exhibition.

This video, showing noise and visual affects of wind turbines, appears in the original Huffington Post article: