Mars Hill Windfarm
Seven of the 28 turbines that make up the Mars Hill Wind facility are viewed across a field from a road near the Maine-Canada border. The facility went operational 15 years ago, becoming New England’s first commercial wind power operation. Credit: Kevin Miller / Maine Public
Seven of the 28 turbines that make up the Mars Hill Wind facility are viewed across a field from a road near the Maine-Canada border. The facility went operational 15 years ago, becoming New England’s first commercial wind power operation. Credit: Kevin Miller / Maine Public
15 years ago, wind power came to a small Aroostook town, and hit turbulence along the way
On a late-summer afternoon in Mars Hill, strong winds swept across the fields of Aroostook County as Ray Mersereau gazed toward a mountaintop 3 miles to the east of his house and counted off what he saw. Read more.
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