Gamesa Corporation is the University of Delaware's partner in Lewes Delaware in a $5 million wind turbine project. The company manufactured and installed the 2-megawatt wind turbine, which is capable of providing electricity for the entire campus. Patrick Harker, University of Delaware (UD) President said the college embraced this project and said Delaware has become a hub for groundbreaking environmental science, progressive policies and productive collaborative efforts. Dean of the university's College of Ocean, Earth, and Environment, Nancy Targett, said “This day was just awesome. It brought together all of the partners to celebrate the accomplishment here and to take a forward look at what we might be doing in the future,”
Harker thanked Targett for her leadership in UD’s wind-power effort, and professors Jeremy Firestone and Willett Kempton, advocates of the coastal wind turbine on the Hugh R. Sharp Campus. Senator Tom Carper said UD’s wind turbine is the first of its kind on the coast and will provide information for those working on a network of similar devices that would be built along the coast from Maine to North Carolina.
“The first offshore deployment of windmills, we hope, will be off the coast of Rehoboth Beach in 2012,” Carper said. He said he wants to ensure a federal tax policy is in place that would give companies an incentive to build.
Once again, while we are far behind European nations in adopting alternate power sources such as wind turbine power, we are moving forward in a positive fashion with sustainable power. Another reason Delaware is number one!
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