Met Towers Installed

If you’ve been up to Ball Hill maybe you noticed the new Met (meteorological) Tower.  This tower will be measuring the winds for the next year to see if a wind turbine within a mile or 2, would be feasible.  The official ribbon cutting will be August 5th.

Prior post on the subject, and another post [...]

Wind Committee Newsletter

Courtesy of Maggie Harling of the Wind Committee

Hey Northborough,

As an update to the activities of the Northborough Wind Turbine Committee there is great news that you may have read about  in the papers.   We won an $85,000 grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative  to proceed with our feasibility study.   This was [...]

Wind Project update

photo by Chuck Coker

Under the urging of Governor Deval Patrick, there is a considerable effort to “go green” in Massachusetts and reduce the negative effects of carbon footprints (pollution impacts).  According to Robert Giles and Joseph McNamara, Co-Chairs of the Northborough Wind Turbine Committee (WTC), the history of this committee started in the fall [...]

Wind Power Study in Progress

There is great effort to “go green” and reduce carbon footprints (pollution impacts), Northborough is no exception. November of 2008, a committee was formed to evaluate sites and feasibility of locating wind turbines in [...]