Credit: Nathan Gauthier
Harvard Real Estate Services, in conjunction with Harvard Parking Services, has placed two 10 kW wind turbines atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage. After almost two years in planning stages, the structures were at last erected and set spinning on a bright day in September, 2009.
According to Joe Gregory, Assistant Director of Sustainability for HRES, all the energy produced by the turbines will be used at the parking garage. “We anticipate production in the amount of 20,000 kWh of supplementary power each year from the pair of turbines,” says Gregory. This will account for approximately 5 – 10% of the total annual energy needs of the garage.
Learn more about this exciting project by reading the Harvard Gazette article, "Harvesting Watts from the Wind."
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We anticipate production in the amount of 20,000 kWh of supplementary power each year from the pair of turbines.