Turbine Goes Up, Electric Bill Down at Allen Farm in Chilmark

 

Peter Rodegast, Larry Schubert and Ned Posin-Allen at the windmill site

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.

Allen Farm co-owner Mitch Posin wind turbine photo Rick Bleakney of Baxter Crane raises the first segment of the windmill

Read full article here: http://www.mvgazette.com/news/2011/11/23/turbine-goes-electric-bill-down-allen-farm-chilmark

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