Green Mountain Power Corporation (GMP) constructed a 6 MW wind power plant on a ridge near Searsburg, Vt., with financial and technical support from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This arrangement of 11 high-tech windmills generated over 1.2 million kWh of electricity in the first two months of 1998—enough to power about 1,500 homes. GMP selected
Advertisement
