CCB lands $250K wind power project
Westbrook construction company CCB Inc. has won a $253,000 contract to install a wind turbine on Cape Cod, the first wind power project to be fully financed by the Federal Transit Administration through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
CCB will install a 120-foot wind turbine in South Dennis, Mass., as part of a $700,000 community wind power project for the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority. The project is expected to generate 100 kilowatts of electricity for the transit authority's operations center, according to Paul Keith, assistant general manager of the CCRTA.
"We expect it will save about 60% of our operating costs, or roughly $60,000 a year," says Keith, adding that the turbine project has drawn interest from transit authorities around the country. "Since this is the first wind tower put up by the federal transit authority, I've been getting calls from regional transit authorities from Texas, Nebraska and elsewhere who are excited by the idea."
Tom Donnelly, CCB director of business development, says CCB beat out competitors from four states to win the work, the sixth wind turbine project the company has been involved with over the past five years. CCB will share the $253,000 contract with New York-based project management firm Sustainable Energy Development.
Company president Beth Sturtevant, a 2009 Mainebiz Woman to Watch, says the company has carved a niche for itself in the not-for-profit community wind power market. Donnelly says smaller turbine operations could be used to power municipal or community projects all along Maine's coast where wind mapping shows the best potential.
Work on the Cape Cod project is expected to begin in July. Donnelly says anywhere from six to eight CCB employees will be dispatched to install the turbine. The project should go online this fall.
Keith says if all goes well with the first tower, the CCRTA would consider installing a second turbine to meet the rest of the operation center's energy needs. The funding for the project came from a larger grant from the federal stimulus act, much of which was used for vehicle upgrades and infrastructure improvements.
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