Wednesday, January 13, 2010

20 Mass. wind projects claim $2.5M in grants

By Mass High Tech staff

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The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is awarding $2.5 million in grants to 20 wind energy projects. The grants are part of the Commonwealth Wind Community-Scale Wind Initiative, a Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust program, that helps wind projects of at least 100 kilowatts.

The fundings, which will support Gov. Deval Patrick’s 2020 goal of developing 2,000 megawatts of wind power capacity, are being directed to communities, educational institutions, public and private institutions and the MBTA.

Of the grant projects, six will use the funds for design and construction of projects with more than 12 megawatts and 14 projects will direct the grants to feasibility studies for projects that would have more than 13 megawatts in capacity.

The grant recipients include the following projects:

Design and construction grants:
Bay Path Regional Technical High School (Charlton) — $399,000 award for a 900-kilowatt (kW) turbine on campus
Camelot Wind LLC (Plymouth) — $240,000 award for a 1.65-megawatt wind turbine
Cape & Vineyard Electric Cooperative (Brewster) — $200,000 award for two 1.65-megawatt wind turbines
Cape & Vineyard Electric Cooperative (Harwich) — $200,000 award for two 1.5-megawatt wind turbines
Masonic Health System of MA (Charlton) — $266,000 award for a 1.5-megawatt wind turbine
Town of Milton — $399,000 for a 2-megawatt wind turbine

Feasibility study grants:
Town of Auburn — $85,000 for a feasibility study of a 900-kilowatt wind turbine
Bristol Community College (Fall River) — $65,000 for a feasibility study of a 1.5-megawatt wind turbine
Chesterfield-Goshen Regional School District (Chesterfield) — $30,000 for a feasibility study of a wind turbine in the range of 100 kilowatts to 225 kilowatts
Endicott College (Beverly) — $32,000 for a feasibility study of a 1.5-megawatt wind turbine
City of Gardner — $50,420 for a feasibility study of a wind turbine ranging from 600 kilowatts to 1.5 megawatts
Gordon College (Wenham) — $53,000 for a feasibility study of a wind turbine ranging from 1 megawatt to 2 megawatts
Town of Lenox — $79,000 for a feasibility study of one or two 1.5-megawatt wind turbines
MBTA (Bridgewater) — $85,000 for a feasibility study of a 1.5-megawatt wind turbine
MBTA (Scituate) — $65,000 for a feasibility study of a wind turbine ranging from 600 kilowatts to 900 kilowatts
Nantucket Public Schools — $20,916 for a feasibility study of a 100-kilowatt wind turbine
Town of Northborough — $85,000 for a feasibility study of a 900-kilowatt or larger wind turbine
City of Salem — $65,000 for a feasibility study of a 1.5-megawatt wind turbine
Spencer East Brookfield Regional School District — $75,000 for a feasibility study of a 600-kilowatt wind turbine
Town of Yarmouth — $45,000 for a feasibility study of a 600-kilowatt wind turbine



 

Editor's note: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the organization providing the awards. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is the organizing body behind the grant awards.