Georgia Mountain Wind Open House

[Chris Santee]

Georgia Mt. Community Wind celebrates local jobs & local energy in Open House Sunday

Milton/Georgia, Vermont ... The Georgia Mountain Community Wind farm (GMCW) will host an Open House and Celebration on Sunday afternoon June 9.

The Open House for community members runs from 1pm to 4 pm and a 2 pm event will celebrate the local jobs that went into building the project and the clean, local energy being produced. 

The project, operational December 31 last year, is providing approximately 8 percent of Burlington Electric Department’s (BED) energy demand through a long-term stably priced contract.

The 10 MW community wind farm consists of four wind turbines, which will produce an estimated 27 million kWh annually.

The project is owned by two local business leaders and life-long Vermonters, renewable energy manufacturer and developer David Blittersdorf and Jim Harrison/the Harrison Family. 

GMCW is financed locally by Merchants Bank.  Lyndon, VT contractors J.A. McDonald performed the site construction and local businesses and services around Chittenden and Franklin counties supported and supplied the project such as Alpha Testing, Graybar, Milton Building Supply, Milton Rentals, Rene’s Gas and Deli, and the Apollo Diner, among many others.

More information on the project can be found at www.georgiamountainwind.com

[ohhman]

We attended this event today & it was AWESOME!

[msm]

I will visit the website --- but thought I'd ask here .. seeking additional information from the Henry Raymond Fairfax Information Website community .

Why does this private endevour have the word :  Community in their name ?  .....  Georgia Mountain Community Wind farm 

How does the company represent Community ?  Specifically, who is the Community ?

Do the local  'Communities' benefit ?  Does this Wind Farm pay local taxes to either/or Milton Georgia ?

Does the GHCW provide dividends ( aka Alaska ) to the members of the Community ? 

Bottomline ... How do the Commmunities directly benefit from this project ?

The title leads you to beleive this a 'Community' Project  ...  Please help me understand ..

Mike M