{"id":106,"date":"2010-01-30T11:02:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T15:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2010-03-02T12:28:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T16:28:26","slug":"1-65-mw-turbine-installed-at-falmouth-wastewater-treatment-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/1-65-mw-turbine-installed-at-falmouth-wastewater-treatment-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"1.65 MW Turbine installed at Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>1.65 MW<\/strong> Vestas V-82 wind turbine installed at the Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Plant was dedicated on January 16, 2010.\u00a0 The installation is part of a Massachusetts\u00a0<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/alternative-energy-generation-for-massachusetts-water-treatment-facilities\/\" target=\"_blank\">energy management pilot program<\/a> <\/strong>for wastewater and drinking water treatment and pumping facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The plant treats just under 400,000 gallons of water per day.\u00a0 In 2007, the facility used <strong>1.1 million kWh<\/strong> of electricity at a cost of $170,000.\u00a0 The wind turbine is expected to generate up to <strong>4 million kWh<\/strong>, so it will supply 100% of the electricity needed, with the remaining electricity sold back to the grid.\u00a0 As a result, the facility expects annual savings of up to <strong>$500,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Estimated cost at <strong>$4.3 million<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>About <strong>$3 million<\/strong> of project cost will be paid through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Program, various grants and the sale of renewable energy credits (RECs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1.65 MW Vestas V-82 wind turbine installed at the Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Plant was dedicated on January 16, 2010.\u00a0 The installation is part of a Massachusetts\u00a0 energy management pilot program for wastewater and drinking water treatment and pumping facilities.<\/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-106","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\/106","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=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}