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The wind power plant also known as the Multiaxis Turbosystem (MAT) at Fort Huachuca will be constructed with the newly developed, adjustable augmenter that was recently announced by the company. The new augmenter technology reduces in a major way the cost for heavy and expensive components needed by an augmenter to increase the harnessed wind velocity by up to 70%, translating into an increase of over five times the power output.
The recently announced new augmenter reduces the electric generation cost below traditional wind turbine technologies, and is directly competitive with fossil fuel power plants such as coal and natural gas.
The MAT structure provides several key advantages over traditional turbine designs. This includes a reduction in capital, operational, and maintenance costs, along with, the ability to operate profitably in lower wind speed locations. In the United States alone, suitable wind power locations currently exist to potentially supply 20 percent of the nation's electricity.
The U.S. Army and Fort Huachuca is highly aggressive in their efforts to pursue the use of renewable energy and American energy independence. Both issues are vital to national and world security.
The project is being coordinated by Ameresco Select, Incorporated, a leader of green energy, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Ameresco Incorporated, a multi billion dollar Framingham, Massachusetts based energy facilitator for the U.S. Army with a contract at Fort Huachuca. Ameresco is a world leader of energy management helping the expansion of green power in this new expanding era of clean energy.
In the past five years, the wind industry achieved a growth rate of more than 25 percent for each year. In 2007, more than $9 billion of new wind power plants worldwide were constructed.
For more information, the web site is www.massmegawatts.com and the company can be reached at the phone number of (508) 751-5432.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that could be affected by risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc.'s ability to produce a cost-effective wind energy conversion device. Among the factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those indicated herein are: the ability to remain competitive; to finance the marketing and sales of its electricity; general economic conditions; and other risk factors detailed in periodic reports filed by Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc.
Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc.CONTACT: Jon Ricker of Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc., +1-508-751-5432
Web site: http://www.massmegawatts.com/