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DATE: 6/25/2012
LOCATION: GREENSBURG, KS
SOURCE: SEANICA REINEKE, Home-made Cartel OF Develop Spreading Facts Service.
Audio with Bob Dixson, mayor of Greensburg, Kansas (MP3 3.7 MB) Download Windows Media Singer. Time: 00:03:56.On May 4, 2007, a monsoon in shreds the small village of Greensburg, Kansas. To the same extent pact began to do again the village, the town was ended to pursue green energy. Mayor Bob Dixson says that town was based upon keen to be a stronger, excellent sustainable colony and afterward leaving rear legs to the inheritance of the town's domestic."Our domestic were eco-friendly stewards and took care of the resources that they had intact what they contracted the Midwest and the Steal Plains cord. They knew all about wind and solar and geothermal and how to carry expert of that. It was a natural development for us since Greensburg to gawk in vogue inhabitants alternative energies of where they may possibly fit in vogue our sustainable master plan and at the same turn give notice inheritance for planned generations of since energy flatten and charge operator in our assistance."Dixson says the village began full of life with the Home-made Renewable Momentum Laboratory in a give out of weeks after the monsoon. He says it was the wind that blew the village away, and they appreciated to understand how they may possibly manage that wind to benefit the village for the planned. Greensburg now has numerous wind energy projects together with a 12.5-megawatt colony wind farm and five, 50-kilowatt small wind turbines located in town-four of them on the main street."Our 12.5 megawatt wind farm is a colony wind farm that generates all of the electricity for the city of Greensburg, twitch the appendage that is generated goes on the grating. We belong to a Kansas power tank, an electric sociable of 32 belong to cities, so they're able to say that competence of their portfolio comes from alternative energies. We afterward display Renewable Momentum Credits that certifies that our assistance is from alternative energy. That is a proliferate transaction point equally if we're able to reserve our cost-per-kilowatt hour, we don't display to scruple about fuel rectification position and inhabitants squeeze. Greensburg is our own role. We reserve our own residence system. Our electricity in particular comes off the grating."Dixson says the internal John Deere dealership now is the vendor of small and psychic wind turbines for a 35 state cord and six Canadian provinces. The internal hospital, coach, and motel knock back with the John Deere dealership, all are wind-generated to assistance assuage their electric bills. Further than crush coldness for the village, Dixson says the turbines knock back the check over pull travelers pithy not later than to adjourn and see what's leaving on in what he calls a living laboratory-his village.The children of Greensburg display been extremely kick off to wind energy, according to Dixson, and they display been wary of wind energy in their district for the like 15 years."It was not a automatic antipathy. It was a natural development. The land of Greensburg, their opinion is as always, we pray as most cut-rate and sustainable electric tax as we can get. We afterward pray abiding fidelity of the infusion of alternative energies and traditionally-generated electricity. But at the same turn, it has to be charge operator, and that's where the commercial wind farms and the colony wind farms are expectations in and allowing us to do that."In the town's sustainable master plan and abiding renaissance plan, Dixson says the village identified all of its capital, beliefs, and priorities. The environment was identified as a superiority, and he says, the wind was identified as a enormous resource. Dixson says the village understands it choice display to witness a accord and infusion of traditionally-generated electricity and alternative energy until it has the technology to have available mammoth amounts of electricity. He says Greensburg lastly requests to develop its batch of alternative energy assistance and wean itself off of tidy energy assistance.SOURCE: Lace POWERING AMERICA (HTTP://WWW.WINDPOWERINGAMERICA.GOV/FILTER DETAIL.ASP?ITEMID=3592)
