10kw Bergey Excel-S
120' Guyed Lattice Tower
Expected Production: 10,000-12,000 kwh/year

NYSERDA Incentive: $28,360
NYSERDA Commercial Farm Inceintive: $5,672
USDA REAP Grant: 25%
Federal Treasury Grant: 30%

Brewerton, NY (November 19th, 2009) – Alternative Power Solutions of NY (APS), a distributor and installer of renewable energy systems, has been awarded several contracts to install wind turbines to central New York farms and businesses over the next several months.

In an era when small farms are forced to pay high prices of feed, paying a higher electricity bill is one thing these farms will no longer have to worry about, after they’ve installed a renewable energy Wind Turbine system. Thanks to a new 10kw Bergey Windpower turbine installed by Alternative Power Solutions, a family rural farm in New Haven, NY will be taking advantage of the high winds of Oswego County to reduce their energy bill by 90-100%.

“This tells only one part of the story” says Owen Pugh, President of Alternative Power Solutions. “It’s the attractive federal and state renewable energy incentives that make this program affordable to struggling farms, and New York state businesses. Incentives that will allow farms like New Haven, to pay off the wind turbine in 3-4 years.

Researchers are surveying a five-county region this fall to assess Central New York's potential for growing and using biomass crops such as shrub willow and switchgrass.

Letters have gone out to 1,000 landowners who live within 25 miles of Morrisville State College in Madison County in hopes of attracting 100 subjects to meet with researchers who want to evaluate their land and develop realistic crop budgets and business plans. At the same time, colleges including Morrisville State and Colgate University are studying how much it would cost to upgrade their facilities to use the alternative energy source to reduce their heating costs and overall dependence on fossil fuels.

Earlier research projects have determined the crop's viability in Upstate New York weather conditions, but this is the first time landowners have been approached with real numbers. Farmers will learn how much it would cost to establish, maintain, harvest and transport energy crops and what they could expect as a profit.