Massachusetts School Installs Commercial-Scale Wind Turbine.

[northside lurker]

The Ashtabula Area City Schools are trying to get themselves a wind turbine. (I don't know if it would be "commercial-scale" though)

[irishbobcat]

Massachusetts School Installs Commercial-Scale Wind Turbine.By Rob Barry, GateHouse News, February 1, 2009. "The 131-foot wind turbine is the first commercial-scale wind turbine to be installed at a municipal school in Massachusetts. It will be online Feb. 5 and will supply 10 percent of the school's electricity, saving an estimated $25,000 a year... The turbine is one part of the Climate Action Plan that came out of the Medford Clean Energy Committee in 2004... A good portion of the turbine was paid for by a $250,000 grant from the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust branch of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Another $200,000 came from an appropriation from the 2008 Massachusetts Energy Bill... Northern Power, operating out of Vermont, manufactured the turbine. The project cost a total of around $437,000."

Ever school  system is America should be receiving some renewable alternative energy package from the stimulus package !

Dennis Spisak
Mahoning Valley Green Party
Ohio Green Party

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