Raising the Wind (Historic farm, Maine)

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http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/93703.html

PITTSTON ACADEMY GRANT, Maine — While its history is steeped in a bygone era of log booms and lumberjacks, remote Historic Pittston Farm earlier this month took a giant leap into the future to ensure its survival as a four-seasons resort.

That leap into the air— with two 100-foot-high wind towers — brings the former Great Northern Paper Co. logging settlement of the early 1900s into the 21st century.

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“There is nothing like this, not of this magnitude, anywhere in the state,” he said. The two wind towers, along with 60 200-watt solar panels, 80 large, deep cycle batteries and four outback inverters, should provide 72,000 to 73,000 kilowatt-hours annually, he said. The system is integrated and all of the wiring is underground.

“The maximum potential would be about 32,000 watts per hour for all three,” Wakefield said, referring to the wind towers, solar panels and generators. He predicts the farm will get 12 to 15 mph winds annually based on the topography. Since the settlement is at the intersection of the two rivers and given the fairly open expanse to the north and northwest from where the prevailing winds blow, the farm should do quite well, he said.

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