European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Windmill Power play i uni utting up a Windmill on your rooftop or in your backyard May save you Money on Energy costs but itdoesn7 always guarantee you a Friendly reception from your local electric company. A Small but growing number of Home owners in the . Arc investing thousands of dollars to turn wind Power into electricity through windmills. Some Are trying to sell their surplus Power Back to utilities but find the companies not always thrilled by the idea. There s no uniform response to the wind Mill idea from America s Utility Compa Nies. Sonic say windmills can be hooked into their system. Some say it is too dangerous. Some say they Hill buy excess Power generated by a private citizen. Some want to charge the customers a monthly fee for the Hookup. Some say the citizen won t be Able to generate enough Potter even for his or her own use. But an associated press spot Check found people in Arkansas Florida. Lows. Maine. Michigan. New York Khod Island. Virginia. Washington and Wisconsin who either recently have installed their own windmills land other Power source such As Hydro Power p or who have applied for permission to install the Many want to plug into a Utility s elec tric system to Back up their own. The idea of hooking into a Utility system and gelling paid for excess Power fed Back into the system is nut a new one. By Martin Merze associated press for Many years utilities have been buying excess Power generated by big business. In Hawaii 40 per cent of the Power is generated by sugar Mills which Burn Cane waste. Northern states Power i Minneapolis buys some Power from the Ford motor co., and Georgia Power buy Small amounts from Industrial firms. So utilities which doubt the value or feasibility of private Power raise the ire of people such As rep. Henry Rouss  installed a Windmill two years ago near his Home at Chc Aqua. It Cost about $5.000 for the equipment and permits other installations Nave Cost from $-1,000 to $10.000. Reuss says he gets about 75 per Cen of his Power needs from his Windmill but exactly How much Power a Homeowner can count on depends mainly on How much wind there is. Unlike Many experimenters. Reuss had no trouble with his local Utility. He agreed however that being a congressman might have helped. But other utilities that oppose the use of windmills Are displaying a Public be damned attitude at its worst Reuss said. The Battle has been fought and won audit s just a matter of telling the utilities that they better join the 20th Century while there still is  most people who win permission Touse Utility Power As a backup for Windmill Power have a device called asynchronous inverter. The machine. Monitors Power needs and draws electricity from windmills or the local Utility As needed. The Energy crisis has turned on Windmill fans. Jim Wurth of Boynton Beach fla., was one of the first people to use the device. It finally helped him persuade Florida Power & Light co. To join his  bought two windmills in 1975 and set them up in his backyard. After Over coming local ordinances he waged a two year Battle with the Power company. Finally after heavy pressure from state officials up a officials began  eventually liked what they saw so much that they bought Wurth s Windmill for further experimentation and displayed his system prominently in their latest annual report. Florida Power & Light s initial resistance was t unusual. But some times it takes state action to allow a Homeowner to Hook up a Windmill. The new York slate Public service commission ordered consolidated Edison co. To set up an experimental program Al lowing up to 25 customers to Hook Windmill generators into coned s system. The Case was started by a new York City resident who wanted to install a Windmill atop an apartment House. Most firms stress that proper Safe guards such As location and approved installation must be made. S. Roland Morgan or. Of Little compton.r.i., owner of a Windmill that provides All the electricity he needs when the wind i blowing steadily has received Permis Sion from the Narragansett electric co. To Hook into its lines. But he still is trying to reach an agreement on credit for his excess Power. The in Vivas we jetting m1w. When i first told them about my plan two years ago and that we would be run Ning their meter backwards they thought that was a Good joke said the 70-year-Oldretired teacher. Then the engineers came and scratched their Heads and said Damn we reposing Money on you.1 so they put a lock on the meter to prevent me getting credit. They thought it was a joke but it s no joke and they re getting mighty interested now he said. A take with a Buzz on by Brad Imp free staff writer Seabee stationed at the naval communications station in Thurso Scotland takes the nickname of . Navy construction battalions  second class Sandy Sandrowicz works next to the sea and during his off duty time keeps bees. The beekeeper from Scranton. Pa., slays Busy Asa you know what during the workday As the station s shops Engineer handling plumbing air conditioning and refrigeration repairs and installation at the Northern Scotland communications site. Sandrowicz who started keeping Ben a year ago says he s always bad an interest in bees but never had Chance to put it into use. 1 attended night classes to beekeeping at thurs University. It seems like every other person up Here keeps bees and has a  he claims there Are two ways to get  you con capture a swarm during the swarming season injure or july or you can buy bees from a commercial  a package of bees includes the All important Queen and about 1.000 workers he said. The Queen is easily identifiable with her Bod being about one and one half times larger than the drones and  lie said that her Long body is for laying eggs an during the period she Lay s eggs she does so at the tune of 1.500 a Day. He also noted that the Queen has to be replaced every three years. I bought a package of bees last year for 18pounds about $32 and a hive runs around 96 pounds Aboutam the Seabee beekeeper added i was Lucky. , Secretary of the Caithness county beekeeping association and my teacher at the University offered to loan me a hive so i could get  Sandy placed on order in january and his Bee arrived by rail in May. You just can t go out and buy a package you have to place a special order he said. The Seabee estimates his hive which is located inthe Antenna Field at the naval communication station has a population of 10.000. It s really hard to  said Sandrowicz who added that the location of his hive is close to work so it s easy to Buzz Over to Check on them. When the Page 12 the stars and stripes 14$ pub Jim col beekeeper Sandrowicz loves his Honey. Bees leave the hive to collect nectar they usually Don t go further than a mile but they have been known to travel As far As three Miles away. The Queen starts laying eggs in the Spring. The workers actually work themselves to death during the Jive to six week summer period bringing nectar into the Hittl the Yanja to fan the Mcwater conies  Sadon during thin a wan about in As far As sunday jul