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Two wind turbines rise over Rhode Island Farm

RHODE ISLAND - Renewable energy is on the rise in Westport, RI with two wind turbines being comissioned at Santos Farm in early March.

One is at the farm's original location on Main Road and one is on a dairy farm the Santos brothers bought from Charles Costa on Adamsville Road.

Santos Farm took advantage of two grants, one from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and one from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grants pay about 100 percent of the cost of the turbines but the farm is paying for the electricians.

"I put them up to cut our utility costs and because it's good for the environment. It's renewable energy," Karl Santos said at the Main Road farm last Thursday.

The turbines are expected to cut utility costs by "as much as a third," Mr. Santos said, although he won't know for sure until they've been running for awhile. The calculations are based on wind maps.

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Source: EastBayRI

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