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Everyone showed up.
Rock Port, MO, became America's first ever
community to be completely powered by wind in April
2008. Rock Port has a population of 1,316, with 715 or
so households. Four Suzlon 1.25-MW turbines deliver
5 MW of electricity into the grid that serves the
community. It takes winds of up to 9-miles per hour to
get the blades of the turbines spinning.
"With wind you need a windy area. Fortunately for
northwest Missouri, the bulk of it is here, but there are
other places where this can be done," said Tom
Carnahan, president of the Wind Capital Group, one of
3 partners in the Rock Port project.
In addition to Wind Capital Group and the town of
Rock Port, John Deere Wind Energy worked with the
group to make the project a reality. This article was posted on The Agurban from Boomtown Institute. If you would like to get their newsletter, go here to get on the mailing list.
It wasn't a ribbon cutting ceremony; it wasn't a ground
breaking. It was all about throwing a switch.
We are seeing more and more wind farms cropping
up throughout the United States. With increasing
energy costs, it makes more and more sense.
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