Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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study, which is going to point to a few areas like
Tbilisi, Valletta, Monrovia, Managua, and Freetown
are good opportunities, we think for wind power.
We're looking at 100-kilowatt turbine,
which you can see on the scale chart, about the size
of the turbine we are looking for. We need about
two acres on the site or some site that we own and
operate to have onsite power. This has about a
five-year payback, so it's a good resource for
supplementing our power sources and reducing our
peak load.
Next slide, please. We're also looking at
photovoltaics. We've done a study comprehensively
of all of our locations and the power rates in those
different locations will tell us where photovoltaics
is most cost effective, of course, combined with the
availability of sunshine. But you can see, we're
looking at two to four to ten year paybacks in many,
many of our countries. So we really could harness
those. It does have an upfront cost, but the cost
is well justified in the lifecycle of the building.
We're looking at, right now we're doing
Geneva, Abidjan, Munich, and Athens. We're all
looking at, we've already put it in place in Geneva,
but the other ones, we are in development.
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