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American Pro-Wind rounds up $250k in loans for Mass. wind study
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The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Renewable Energy Trust awarded a $178,000 loan to a development group proposing a 26 megawatt wind farm in Douglas.
American Pro-Wind LLC of Weymouth has proposed a 13-turbine project on a 272-acre site that would be the largest land-based wind farm in the state. The project has received preliminary support and could begin construction as early as the end of 2011, consultants said.
State loans will go toward pre-development activities, such as electrical interconnection studies, archeological surveys, wind energy assessment, the negotiation of a power purchase agreement and electrical engineering work. It follows a $72,000 state loan received in July for site plan review. Both loans come through the Trust’s Commonwealth Wind commercial wind incentive program.
Massachusetts has 15 megawatts of wind on-line to date, mostly through small developments of a handful of turbines.
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