In a move toward energy efficiency, the Board of Selectmen, working as the town’s light commissioners, voted on Tuesday, May 25, to buy 17 percent of Spruce Mountain Wind Project’s electricity output.
“It’s a good move for the town to buy into the ‘green’ (energy) at a reasonable cost,” Selectman Bill Plasko said.
The electricity from Maine-based Spruce Mountain Wind Project makes up about 3 percent of the Norwood Light Department’s energy, said Malcolm McDonald, superintendent of the Norwood Municipal Light Department.
McDonald said he could see municipal light departments, like Norwood’s, being required by the state to be 100 percent green, or energy efficient, some day.
“We are not required right now,” McDonald said. “But I see it happening (in the future).”
The fixed rate would be set at $99.70 per megawatt hour, McDonald said. A megawatt hour is a measurement of energy.
Plasko said the price wouldn’t be too much higher than the current $75 per megawatt hour that is bought by the light department at the end of the 15 years.
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