Wind turbine construction begins in Scituate Massachusetts

By Jessica Bartlett, Town Correspondent

A $3.1 million bond from MassDevelopment has become the final financing piece to constructing a 263-foot-tall, $6 million wind turbine across from the wastewater-treatment plant on the Driftway in Scituate.

“The construction company is in full activity,” he said. “The plan is to install the turbine this winter, do the testing and final commission and have it spinning by Earth Day in late April.”

Scituate officials estimate that the turbine will provide half of the town’s energy. Combined with the solar array that is to go on the landfill, by next year, 100 percent of the town’s energy needs will come from renewable sources.

“All of the town’s electricity in all of our schools, police station, town hall, all the electricity in street lights, water plant, sewer plant, harbormaster, it’s half of our total electric bill. And the solar field is another half of our electricity,” Bangert said.

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