Showing posts with label Wind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wind. Show all posts

Monday, September 26, 2011

Merger may impact nation's 1st offshore wind farm

BOSTON (AP) -- The nation's first offshore wind farm enjoys high-profile federal and state backing, but it hasn't been able to win over one important party: the second-largest utility in Massachusetts.
Cape Wind sorely needs to attract big power customers to obtain the financing to fully build out its 130-turbine project in Nantucket Sound. But the utility NStar has taken a tepid public stance on Cape Wind -- chief executive Tom May once proclaimed his company "agnostic" about it.
It may be about to get religion.

Friday, September 23, 2011

MWRA Installing a Huge Wind Turbine in Charlestown, MA


I was at Costco in Everett, MA when I noticed this huge wind turbine from the parking lot.
According to the MWRA site.
MWRA is installing a new, 1.5 megawatt wind turbine at the DeLauri Sewer Pump Station in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
The turbine will generate 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity per