{"id":134,"date":"2009-11-30T11:46:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T15:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-03-09T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:14:45","slug":"2-600kw-wind-turbines-installed-at-mwra-deer-island-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/2-600kw-wind-turbines-installed-at-mwra-deer-island-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"2 600kW wind turbines installed at MWRA Deer Island Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 600kW wind turbines were installed at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority&#8217;s Deer Island facility in <strong>August, 2009<\/strong>.\u00a0 The 2 turbines are expected to generate <strong>2 million kWh<\/strong> of electricity each year,\u00a0 a savings of about $250,000 to the MWRA ratepayers.<\/p>\n<p>Water treatment, especially on the scale of Deer Island, is a hugely resource intensive undertaking.\u00a0 Deer Island treats <strong>360 million gallons of wastewater each day. <\/strong>All the energy generated by these turbines will be used on site, but will account for only about 3% of total energy use.\u00a0 This project, however, brings the total of renewable energy used at Deer Island to <strong>26%<\/strong> of its total energy use.\u00a0 The renewable energy runs the gamut of technologies, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hydroelectric &#8211; two 1 MW hydroelectric generators produce 5 million kWh per year (treated wastewater leaving the facility)<\/li>\n<li>Solar &#8211; 100 kW solar array with a second one planned<\/li>\n<li>Biomass &#8211; methane generated during sludge digestion produces steam &amp; hot water and generates electricity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The MWRA can install up to three more turbines on site, assuming that the FAA determines that there have been no adverse effects on aviation radar from the initial installation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total project cost &#8211; <strong>$4 million<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>MTC grant &#8211; $400,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Feasibility study completed <strong>July, 2005<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>FAA approval granted <strong>April, 2008<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Critical to this project due to proximity to Boston&#8217;s Logan Airport and concern over radar impacts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Design\/Build contract awarded <strong>October, 2008<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Contractor was Lumus Construction, now part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solayaenergy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Solaya Energy<\/a>, a developer &amp; operator of renewable energy facilities with an 600 MW installed portfolio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 600kW wind turbines were installed at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority&#8217;s Deer Island facility in August, 2009.\u00a0 The 2 turbines are expected to generate 2 million kWh of electricity each year,\u00a0 a savings of about $250,000 to the MWRA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,42,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-water","category-wind","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","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=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}