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Templeton Wind Turbine
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| Type: | Projects | |
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In September 2010, Templeton Municipal Light and Water Plant (TMLWP) commissioned a 1.65 MW utility scale wind turbine on land owned by the Narragansett Regional School District. TMLWP was the first Municipal Light Project to join MassCEC’s Renewable Energy Trust after the Green Communities Act made it possible, and now its customers are reaping the economic and environmental benefits with 1.65 MW of clean, renewable energy.
State and local officials dedicated the turbine to John LeClerc, the technology instructor at Narragansett Middle School who originally proposed a wind turbine project as a tool to would teach students about the benefits of renewable energy.
Not only will the wind turbine serve as a teaching tool for the Narragansett Regional School District’s environmental curriculum, but it will also produce five percent of Templeton Municipal Light and Water’s energy needs. MassCEC awarded Templeton Municipal Light and Water a $400,000 grant for the design and construction through MassCEC’s Commonwealth Wind Community Scale Wind Program. Commonwealth Wind was established in 2009 to complement the state’s newly enacted net metering regulations and to meet the state’s goal of 2,000 MW of wind power capacity installed by 2020. The Community Scale Wind Initiative was recently awarded a State Leadership in Clean Energy (SLICE) Award from the Clean Energy States Alliance.
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