Michael Giberson
The AWPC is a museum showing off about 150 years of windmill technology. Most of the windmills in the collection were intended for pumping water, or sometimes for milling grain, but they have a few historical electrical generators and a pair of new models including a 660 kW Vespa which powers the site and is interconnected to the local utility. On the ground in the above photo is a disassembled GE 1.5 MW generator that will become the centerpiece of a planned addition.
Thanks to a canceled school tour I was able to get a personal tour of the site from executive director Coy Harris. I asked him whether they had any trouble interconnecting the generator to the local power company. He said it took a bit of effort, but they had to work a lot harder with the city in order to install the tower inside the city, at a facility with public access and near a residential neighborhood.
Harris tipped me off that the Farmers Cooperative Compress located on the Southeast edge of town was installing a number of wind turbines, so I headed over to take a look.
The student paper at Texas Tech University discussed the AWPC in .
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