Aug 03, 2018
Atlantic County Utilities Authority (ACUA) will hold wind farm tours for the
public at its Atlantic City facility on Monday, August 6, and Friday, August 10, at 12 noon as part of a national celebration of U.S. leadership in wind power
and the benefits it creates for all Americans. ACUA’s wind farm tours are one
of nearly 30 events happening in over 15 states from August 5-11 in recognition
of the second annual American Wind Week.
ACUA welcomes
the public for tours of the wind farm and wastewater treatment facility and
offers “Open
House” tours in July and August. Curious residents and summer
visitors can learn about the wind turbines and how ACUA uses wind and solar to
clean wastewater at its Atlantic City Facility. Tours are offered on Monday and
Friday at 12 noon through the end of August. Preregistration for these tours is
not necessary, and more information is available online at: acua.com/summertours
or by calling 609-272-6950. The wind farm is located
at 1801 Absecon Blvd. (Route 30) in Atlantic City.
“The Jersey Atlantic Wind Farm helps to power
our energy intensive wastewater treatment facility with clean renewable energy
and has saved the ACUA over $5.6 million since coming online in 2006,” said
ACUA President Rick Dovey. “New Jersey has great potential to harness
additional wind power. These five 1.5 megawatt turbines here at the ACUA alone can
produce enough power for approximately 2,500 homes. The environmental benefits
of wind energy are equally important to us; using wind energy reduces carbon
dioxide, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide emissions.”
“Leeward
Renewable Energy is happy to be celebrating American Wind Week at our Jersey
Atlantic Wind farm with ACUA, the innovative customer who made this project a
success since 2005. They help the Jersey Atlantic Wind farm deliver unique wind
energy benefits to the community – creating American jobs, harnessing a strong
domestic resource, and reducing emissions,” said Greg Wolf, CEO of Leeward Renewable
Energy.
“This American
Wind Week, we salute the more than 105,000 U.S. workers who make it possible to
transform the power of wind into affordable electricity that our families and
businesses rely on,” said Tom Kiernan, CEO of AWEA. “We’re building more U.S.
wind power today than ever before. This is what leadership looks like – growing
economic opportunity, homegrown energy, and cleaner air from sea to shining
sea.”
Supporters of
wind energy across the U.S. launched American Wind Week last year when wind
power became the country’s largest source of renewable energy capacity. Today,
that leadership is growing with a record amount of wind power
under construction at wind farms across America. The U.S. possesses
world-class wind resources, with some parts of the heartland and coasts known
as the “Saudi Arabia of wind”, and U.S. wind farms are the most productive
among countries with the highest levels of installed wind power, like China and
Germany.
Across the
nation a record 105,000 Americans work in wind power, affordably and reliably
supplying over six percent of U.S. electricity and creating clean air benefits
worth more than $8 billion each year. Wind turbine technicians and
solar installers are the nation’s two fastest growing jobs according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Visit AmericanWindWeek.org
to learn more about wind power and to see a full map of the week’s
events ranging from a community barbeque in New Mexico to a wind
farm tour in North Dakota. If you can’t make it to a Wind Week event in your
state, you can still participate by sharing why you’re proud of American leadership
in wind power with #americanwindweek on social media.
For a library
of up-to-date images of wind energy, please use this
link.
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About the American Wind Energy
Association:
AWEA is the national trade association of the
U.S. wind energy industry. We represent 1,000 member companies and over 100,000
jobs in the U.S. economy, serving as a powerful voice for how wind works for
America. Members include global leaders in wind power and energy development,
turbine manufacturing, and component and service suppliers. They gather each
year at the Western Hemisphere’s largest wind power trade show, the AWEA
WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition, next in Houston, May 20-23, 2019. Find
information about wind energy on the AWEA website. Gain insight into industry issues on AWEA's blog, Into the Wind. And please join us on Facebook, and follow @AWEA on Twitter.
About the Atlantic County Utilities
Authority:
The Atlantic County
Utilities Authority is charged with providing responsible waste management
services to protect local waters and lands from pollution. ACUA has gone beyond
its mandate with renewable energy and alternative fuel projects. The ACUA’s
Wastewater Division in Atlantic City serves 14 municipalities with a 40 million
gallon per day treatment facility, 20 pumping stations, and over 60 miles of
interceptor sewers and force mains. The wastewater treatment facility in
Atlantic City is home to the 7.5-MW Jersey Atlantic Wind Farm, a 500-kW solar
project, 1 MW battery storage project, electrical vehicle charging stations and
a green roof. The ACUA’s Solid Waste facilities in Egg Harbor Township include
a landfill, compost site, transfer station, maintenance center, geothermal
administration building, recycling center, a 5.4-MW landfill gas-to-electricity
project, a compressed natural gas (CNG) station, a biodiesel fueling station,
electric vehicle charging stations and a green vehicle wash. Find information
on ACUA’s website, join us on Facebook, and follow @ACUA_Green on Twitter.