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Mass Megawatts Wind Power Inc. will provide wind turbine equipment for several wind farms in Pennsylvania, the company announced Wednesday.
The agreement between Electric City Wind Power Corp., a Scranton, Pa., wind development firm partially owned by Worcester-based Mass Megawatts, and a group of Scranton-area investors calls for Mass Megawatts to provide up to 3 megawatts of Multi-Axis Turbosystem equipment valued at $5.8 million. The equipment converts wind energy into electricity. Unlike wind turbines that generate power through one large rotating blade system, MAT uses a rectangular steel frame with multiple, stacked, small blades. The design, Mass Megawatts reported, costs less than a windmill-style design due to a ground-level generator and drive train, which reduces maintenance costs and vibration stresses. The MAT design also generates power with a lower wind speed, according to the company website.
The investment group headed by John Gianacopoulos will site the equipment in northeastern Pennsylvania.
“Mass Megawatts’ MAT wind power generation system is below 50 feet in height and local municipalities that have had Electric City Wind Power provide presentations on the system have had an extremely favorable reaction,” Gianacopoulos said in a statement.
The first commercial installation of Mass Megawatts’ new model will be completed this month in Hunter, N.Y.
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