Stop & Shop Said Looking at Wind Power
Ahold banner Stop & Shop is planning to build a windmill at a shopping center it owns in Gloucester, Mass., according to a published report. The structure, Stop & Shop’s first windmill, would serve as a pilot project in a wider sustainable energy initiative undertaken by the chain to reduce its carbon footprint by 20 percent by 2015.
Although three other commercial wind projects are slated for the area, including a turbine considered by Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods to run its seafood-processing plant, Stop & Shop’s windmill could be the first built, the Gloucester Daily Times reported, adding that the other projects have been delayed by the recession and Whole Foods’ ongoing feasibility study. Stop & Shop is also running such a study.
Michele Harrison, a local attorney shepherding the Quincy, Mass.-based grocer through the process of obtaining the necessary permits from the Zoning Board of Appeal and the City Council, told the newspaper that the grocer was mulling a wind turbine in the 250-foot range, although the exact height had not been decided.
Tentative plans call for the windmill to be built in what is currently a parking lot on the west side of the company’s 63,000-square-foot store, Harrison said. Gloucester was apparently chosen for its access to consistent breezes coming off the Atlantic Ocean, according to the report.
Stop & Shop spokeswoman Faith Weiner was quoted by the newspaper as saying that if the initial project was successful, the company could install windmills at more of its 375 stores.
Although three other commercial wind projects are slated for the area, including a turbine considered by Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods to run its seafood-processing plant, Stop & Shop’s windmill could be the first built, the Gloucester Daily Times reported, adding that the other projects have been delayed by the recession and Whole Foods’ ongoing feasibility study. Stop & Shop is also running such a study.
Michele Harrison, a local attorney shepherding the Quincy, Mass.-based grocer through the process of obtaining the necessary permits from the Zoning Board of Appeal and the City Council, told the newspaper that the grocer was mulling a wind turbine in the 250-foot range, although the exact height had not been decided.
Tentative plans call for the windmill to be built in what is currently a parking lot on the west side of the company’s 63,000-square-foot store, Harrison said. Gloucester was apparently chosen for its access to consistent breezes coming off the Atlantic Ocean, according to the report.
Stop & Shop spokeswoman Faith Weiner was quoted by the newspaper as saying that if the initial project was successful, the company could install windmills at more of its 375 stores.