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The City of Abernathy is taking advantage
of federal funds to save taxpayers money.
As of August 3rd, 2010, Abernathy was
able to upgrade multiple systems inside City Hall by using funding
provided by the State
Energy Conservation Office.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 has provided the State
Energy Conservation Office (or SECO) with $290 million to
disperse throughout Texas towns.
$23,030 was granted to Abernathy, which
was used to purchase two wind turbines, several automated thermostats,
and automated lights for some rooms.
Improvements made include:
- install two Raum 3.5KW wind generators
(purchased from Imperial
Electric, Inc).
- Install 8 programmable thermostats.
- Install 5 occupancy detector wall switches
- Install 7 timer wall switches.
The thermostats will automate the heating
and cooling systems in a effort to reduce associated gas and
electrical costs.
The turbines, which will be used to
directly feed energy into City Hall, can generate up to around
7 Kilowatts/ hour of wind powered energy.
The energy produced by the wind generatorswill
be 100% consumed within City Hall.
Anticipated annual savings total $4,950
which represents a 4 1/2 year return on the investment. |
