Engineering & Utilities is pleased to announce that we 
have just signed an agreement to purchase more than 10% of 
the electricity consumed on Harvard’s Cambridge and Allston 
campuses from a wind farm in northern Maine.  According to 
the Environmental Protection Agency, this agreement makes 
Harvard the largest buyer of wind power by a college or 
university in New England.

     Under the agreement with First Wind, a Massachusetts 
based wind-power company, Harvard will purchase 50% of the 
total electricity and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) 
generated by the planned Stetson Wind II facility near 
Danforth, ME.  

     First Wind will begin construction of the facility 
immediately and it is expected to start generating clean, 
renewable power for Harvard by mid-2010.  Electricity from 
the project will be generated by 17, General Electric, 1.5 
MW turbines.  This project is the next phase of an existing 
wind farm with 38 turbines that went online in January.  

     “The 15-year agreement enables the development of this 
clean energy resource and the subsequent lowering of the 
greenhouse gas intensity of the New England electric grid,” 
said Mary Smith, Harvard’s manager of energy supply & 
utility administration. 

First Wind is an independent North American wind energy 
company focused exclusively on the development, ownership, 
and operation of wind energy projects.  First Wind is 
headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.  For more 
information on First Wind, please visit www.firstwind.com.