Westport businesses going and getting green

Grant Welker has an article in today's Herald Tribune about Westport businesses that have embraced alternative energy, wind and solar, in order to be more environmentally conscious and save money. According to the article, Whaling City Transit "has been getting monthly checks for around $20, Neves, the president and co-owner, said. That’s after enough energy is produced that the company often has no energy bill at all."
Westport's Alternative Energy Committee is also looking ...

... at sites for wind turbines, according to the article,

While the commercial sector and many residents have turned to the sun or wind for energy, the town Alternative Energy Committee, which proposed the Town Hall turbine, has again begun looking for locations. It is considering the transfer station, land behind the fire station under construction on Hixbridge Road and potential parcels near the shore.
But the committee isn’t looking to build a 120-foot turbine as it did two years ago. Now it's considering something about twice as high with the capacity to provide 100 times or more energy.

The Town of Falmouth recently completed erection of two commercial size wind turbines, one at their waste water plant and another on the Massachusetts Military Reservation.