Turbine Goes Up, Electric Bill Down at Allen Farm in Chilmark
Turbine Goes Up, Electric Bill Down at Allen Farm in Chilmark
Remy Tumin
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 – 4:00pm
Five years ago Mitchell Posin and Clarissa Allen had a vision: of sheep grazing under a windmill that powered their Chilmark farm. It was a vision of a working farm functioning with clean energy, from the grass the sheep ate to the compost tea they helped produce to the wind that spun the turbine.
On Monday morning that vision became reality when a 149-foot turbine was installed at the farm, the largest turbine to date on the Island.
Read full article here: http://www.mvgazette.com/news/2011/11/23/turbine-goes-electric-bill-down-allen-farm-chilmark