Portsmouth's wind turbine will be featured on CNN this Wednesday, according to an e-mail just sent to local media by the Portsmouth Economic Development Committee (PEDC).

CNN has a week long feature titled "Road to Rescue" focused on nationwide efforts by industry, state and local government and citizens to turn around our troubled economy. It will run this week March 16 - March 20. Rhode Island is featured as one of the states hit hardest by the downturn and Portsmouth (with the installation of the Wind Turbine Generator at the High School) is featured as a community that is doing something positive to help improve local economic conditions. CNN will broadcast live on Wednesday from near the High School featuring the WTG. They interviewed both our Town Council President Peter McIntyre and Gary Gump (chairman of our PEDC Sustainable Energy Subcommittee) this past week. They expect to broadcast live from the remote beginning at 9 AM possibly through 7 PM. The Portsmouth interviews from earlier this week will most likely run some time during the 9 AM hour and probably air once an hour thru the day interspersed with the live feed from the HS site. There will be a CNN reporter and production crew at their CNN remote during the Wednesday program.
— via PEDC press release

W00t! Congratulations to the EDC and everyone who made this possible.