Hull has gotten a new wind turbine. Say hello to a shiny new Vestas V80 1.8 Megawatt beauty.
The new turbine will produce 5 million kWhs every year, enough energy for 750 homes, or 20 percent of the cities power,offsetting 3000 tons of CO2 (stats from here and here) all pictures by Richard Lawrence.
My friend and co-worker Richard who works for Cape and Islands Self Reliance, was lucky enough to be there during the installation and took a lot of really good pictures.
Hulls two turbines are part of a larger trend of medium scale land based turbines in New England. The new IBEW turbine in Boston, and the new Mass. Maritime turbine on Cape Cod make nice neighbors for the new Hull 2. Now if we can just get a few hundred more.
We have them in NJ – awesome sight all right. But it sure will be beneficial for all of us.
THe next place on the Cape – should be Nantucket Sound,
off the shores of Osterville. They’ve been against it for a long time, but I think it is now due.
I agree m. but these people have a lot of money, and in our country that means they can block things, even if the majority of people are for the wind farm.
I continue to hope and believe that if enough people are interested in doing the right thing, it can and will happen. Let’s hope so; this is America.
Chris Holland
Nantucket