copyright the Chronicle June 1, 2016
by Elizabeth Trail
HOLLAND — The Public Service Board awarded Dairy Air Wind, LLC, in Holland a long-term contract on May 27 to sell about 6,000,000 kilowatt hours of power a year to Vermont utilities.
That puts dairy farmer Brian Champney a step closer to his longstanding hope of producing wind power on a hayfield on his 600-acre farm north of the school and town clerk’s office here.
That’s enough to power 2,000 to 2,500 homes, Mr. Champney said.
The power will be produced by a single 2.2-megawatt wind turbine in the center of the Champney family farm.
Mr. Champney’s house is about 2,000 to 2,500 feet from where the turbine will stand, he said. It’s right in the center of the family farm, on land belonging to his mother, Linda Champney.
“I’m going to be the closest one,” he said Tuesday…To read the rest of this article, and all the Chronicle‘s stories, subscribe:
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