{"id":104,"date":"2009-11-15T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T14:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2010-03-02T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T16:29:21","slug":"1-5-mw-turbine-installed-at-massachusetts-military-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/1-5-mw-turbine-installed-at-massachusetts-military-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"1.5 MW Turbine installed at Massachusetts Military Reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 1.5 MW Fuhrlander FL-1500 wind turbine was dedicated at the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod in early November, 2009.\u00a0 It is the 2nd largest wind turbine installed in Massachusetts, and the largest installed since 2007.\u00a0\u00a0 (A 1.65 MW turbine is coming on line in Falmouth shortly.)<\/p>\n<p>The turbine was installed to reduce the cost and environmental impact of the ongoing groundwater remediation project, which treats 15 to 16 million gallons of water a day.\u00a0\u00a0 The facility currently spends about <strong>$2 million <\/strong>each year on electricity to run the pumping and treatment facilities.\u00a0\u00a0 The wind turbine is expected to generate enough electricity to cover about <strong>30%<\/strong> of the electricity used.<\/p>\n<p>The total project cost is estimated at <strong>$4.6 million <\/strong>with a planned payback period of <strong>6 -8 years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contact was awarded in <strong>September, 2007<\/strong> to Environmental Chemical Corporation of California<\/li>\n<li>Estimated cost at <strong>$4.6 million<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Return\/Payback: <strong>6-8 year payback<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1.5 MW Fuhrlander FL-1500 wind turbine was dedicated at the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod in early November, 2009.\u00a0 It is the 2nd largest wind turbine installed in Massachusetts, and the largest installed since 2007.\u00a0\u00a0 (A 1.65 MW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-wind","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}