Written by California’s Kirkwood ski area will install 20 wind turbines, enough to power the community during the 8-month off-season.
The Alpine County community has nearly 700 residents when skiers aren’t in town. Wind power would meet about 20 percent of the resort’s demand during the peak winter season.
The windmills would make Kirkwood the nation’s first ski resort to get a significant amount of its electricity from renewable energy generated on its own property. The resort is near Carson Pass, east of Sacramento and south of Lake Tahoe.
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