Hull (Mass.) tilts toward more turbines...to put 4 windmills...off shore

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Hull tilts toward more turbines: Town wants to put 4 windmills 2 miles offshore

http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2006/09/19/news/news03.txt

HULL - Hull’s two power-generating windmills could be getting some company as soon as 2008. The town’s municipal light department wants to build four wind turbines about two miles offshore.

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The offshore wind farm project’s goal is ‘‘to power the town substantially by nonpolluting, renewable wind power,’’ the application states.

The quasi-public agency’s board in June approved a loan for up to $1.7 million, according to Gregory C. Watson, vice president for sustainable development and renewable energy in the collaborative’s Hyannis office.

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‘‘They’ll be similar in appearance and size to Hull Wind II,’’ MacLeod said, referring to the larger of the two existing wind turbine towers. That three-blade wind turbine is about 330 feet high, which includes about 60 or 70 feet of added height from sitting atop a hill of capped rubbish, MacLeod noted.

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