By Joy Leiker, Star Press
jleiker@muncie.gannett.com
The millions of stimulus dollars offered to east central Indiana schools and municipalities has focused attention back to the state's first school energy project at Randolph Eastern Schools in Union City.
There, site preparation is under way for two 1-megawatt wind turbines, one for the school and the other to power the city's wastewater treatment plant. The schools and city are working together to build alternative energy. And they want to provide more than their own power. They want to sell excess energy to utility companies on the power grid, and thus create their own revenue stream.
It's been lauded as a first-of-its-kind collaboration.