How many watts have we saved?!

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Rock Port, MO’s new wind turbines at Loess Hills Wind Farm will soon be generating more power than the local residents consume.  Four 1.25 megawatt turbines will generate 5 megawatts of power daily or 16 gigawatt hours (16 million kilowatt hours) annually.  The local residents historically uses 13 gigawatt hours.

At an average cost of $0.11 per kilowatt hour, that’s over $1.7 million in energy cost savings.  Excess energy is being bought by Missouri Joint Municipal Utilities.

This should be the new standard for sustainable living and development.

See these links for more information.

Posted by mgt, filed under Conservation. Date: May 6, 2008, 8:53 pm | No Comments »