Walmart Puts Big Onsite Wind Power To Test

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Walmart won’t actually own the turbine – Foundation Windpower will. Just like many solar companies, Foundation Windpower finances, builds and maintains its power generating systems for customers. With federal and state subsidies often helping, the company is then able to sell the power to the customer at a price below utility rates.

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Foundation has three other onsite wind power projects in place in California, and a handful more under construction. One of the functioning turbines is a 1.5-MW model at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Fairfield. It was commissioned in November last year and is expected to produce 3.5 GWh of power annually.

The single largest onsite wind  project in the United States, according to the American Wind Energy Association, is the two-turbine, 3.3-MW installation at haircare-products manufacturer Zotos’ plant in Geneva, N.Y. Not far behind is the project unfolding at SC Johnson’s Waxdale plant in Wisconsin. Before the end of the year, two 1.5-MW turbines there are expected to be producing 8 GWh a year of power, about 15 percent of the energy used at the plant, according to the company.

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Posted on August 9th, 2012 · Comment ↓

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  • http://profiles.google.com/njim325058 paul radcliff

    I think this is terrific! Although not a huge fan of any company that sells a major percentage of goods, produced in China, (what isn’t, anymore, thanks outsourcing traitors), this is a positive step for the environment, although, I’m sure cost savings was top priority for Wal Mart’s bottom line. I wonder how many home made windmills it would take on my roof or on short towers, to save me 75% on my electricity bills. The cost of doing it all myself is what is stopping me. Michigan green energy subsidies for homeowners dried up after the cost cutting Governor Snyder slashed everything from police protection to help for the helpless. Now, I hear they have a budget surplus, so we may get that unneeded bridge to Canada, so the dill hole has a monument to hating on poor people. Funny how everything goes back to politics and the evils of an austerity form of government.  
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