Brewster contemplating wind turbines on public land
Could Brewster be the Kobe Bryant of wind energy? [For UK readers: Kobe Bryant, American baseball star - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant ] Sean Tilly, a consultant from Black and Veatch of Boston, thinks so. “You have a decent wind resource,” he informed the Brewster board of selectmen last week, when he presented the conclusions of a wind turbine feasibility study. The rapid slide show was dense with data. “Anyway you slice it this project is a slam-dunk,” he proclaimed. “So under the net metering scenario it is a great deal.” So much so that a one or two turbine project could pay for itself in a little over one month – provided it’s financed entirely with debt. Black and Veatch’s 157-page report is available on the Brewster town Web site http://www.town.brewster.ma.us/ Above: This is a simulation, somewhat vertically enhanced, of how a turbine at the town pumping station off Freeman’s Way would appear from Route 6, facing west. Photo simulation from Black and Veatch Black...