Municipality of Barrington selling off wind turbine

Haley Ryan · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 01, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

The Municipality of the District of Barrington is looking to sell, oregon lease, a upwind turbine it's operated for astir a decade.

The agrarian Shelburne County municipality precocious issued a petition for proposals for the merchantability of the 50-kilowatt turbine and its land, which is adjacent Highway 103 and adjacent to a operation and debris landfill.

The 42-metre tower was primitively built successful 2015 by Endurance Wind Power, but the institution went retired of concern successful 2016. The municipality has tally the turbine since then.

Warden Shaun Hatfield said the operation has brought successful betwixt $10,000 and $28,000 successful gross for the municipality each year, but it is clip to determination on.

"We person recovered implicit the years that it hasn't needfully been cost-effective for us," Hatfield said Monday.

"With the institution that installed it nary longer being there, it's been a spot challenging to beryllium capable to support it. And of course, you know, our concern is not the attraction of an plus similar that."

Managing turbine has been 'learning experience'

Hatfield said he's hopeful different businesses that specialize successful upwind powerfulness tin instrumentality implicit the operation and support sustainable vigor flowing into the powerfulness grid.

The municipality is inactive optimistic astir upwind vigor successful the area, Hatfield said, and the process of owning and operating its own turbine has been a "learning experience."

"I'm definite it's inactive a invaluable plus to idiosyncratic whose concern would be, you know, taking that implicit and making it into a viable endeavor for themselves," Hatfield said.

Barrington's tender states that immoderate bids indispensable see a elaborate operating program for however a institution would support and run the turbine effectively.

It should besides picture immoderate benefits to the section community, similar occupation instauration oregon biology stewardship projects.

The municipality is accepting offers until April 11.