Workers recently installed three 1.2 kilowatt wind turbines near the soccer fields adjacent to College Park Hall, another step in the College’s sustainability efforts to reduce its carbon footprint.
The turbines will supply 40 percent of the power used regularly at the athletic complex, including for lights and the scoreboard, reducing the College’s energy costs by several thousand dollars a year. In addition, students in Richard Wilk’s mechanical engineering classes will use the turbines to study the potential of wind power and other renewable energy sources.
A number of media outlets were on hand to chronicle the installation. Among them: