This 90-foot-tall wind turbine with 8-foot-long blades generates 1,000 watts of power for Union City Community High School. The project could be a model for how ECI schools could spend the $12 million they have been awarded to pursue wind and geothermal energy projects. (The Star Press file photo)
This 90-foot-tall wind turbine with 8-foot-long blades generates 1,000 watts of power for Union City Community High School. The project could be a model for how ECI schools could spend the $12 million they have been awarded to pursue wind and geothermal energy projects. (The Star Press file photo)

By Joy Leiker, Star Press

jleiker@muncie.gannett.com

Federal stimulus money could drastically change the footprint of green energy in East Central Indiana.

Of the $34 million awarded to Indiana schools and cities this week to pursue wind and geothermal energy projects, more than $12 million will be spent in Delaware, Henry and Randolph counties. (Another $6.6 million was awarded to Nettle Creek and Richmond schools in Wayne County.)
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