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Utility poles offer small-scale wind power

Date: 01/11/2009

Company: Southwest Windpower

Source: The Boston Globe

Kellogg Warner said he spends a lot of time these days riding his bike around, counting light poles.

He counts the poles in parking lots at shopping centers, office parks, schools, and anywhere else there is space and wind. There are more than 60 light poles on the Nahant Causeway, he said, and more than 100 at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers.

In Warner’s vision, all of the poles have turbines on top, spinning in the wind, generating energy and blending into the landscape.

“The big question to me is always, ‘How many of these can you put up and where can you put them up?’ ” Warner said. “How big can you make the market?”

Warner is the CEO and founder of Marblehead-based Deerpath Energy, which has proposed putting turbines – featuring three blades with a 16-foot diameter – atop the light poles of the Nahant Causeway. As the turbines spin, they generate energy back to grid.

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