A wind turbine will go up over the next three days at the New England Institute of Technology, near Route 95, in Warwick.

WARWICK — Drivers on Route 95 will soon notice a new addition to the skyline along the highway when the New England Institute of Technology installs a 156-foot-tall wind turbine at its campus nearby.

The 100-kilowatt turbine is set to go up over three days next week in a parking lot off Access Road, a stone’s throw from the busy interstate. It will be the third large wind turbine in Rhode Island.

The turbine will provide clean power to the technical school for years to come, but there’s another reason the school invested in the $455,000 machine, and spent another $250,000 on 135 solar panels last April. School officials will use the new technology to train students for “green-collar” jobs in the state’s emerging alternative energy industry.

“It’s the wave of the future,” said Philip G. Parsons, vice president and general counsel.

Although it will be hard to miss because of its location, the turbine is much smaller than two utility-scale turbines located in Portsmouth. The taller of the two machines stands 336 feet high. It’s also dwarfed by the turbines Deepwater Wind proposes installing off the Rhode Island coast. Their highest points will reach 432 feet above the sea.

Still, the New England Institute’s turbine will generate plenty of power. It’s expected to provide 164,000 kilowatts of electricity annually to the campus, where the average wind speed is 11.9 mph. By comparison, a typical house uses about 8,000 kilowatts a year, according to Parsons.

When school is in session, the institute will save money because it will not have to purchase as much power from National Grid. Overnight and on Sundays, when there are no classes, any energy generated will be sold to the utility.

Alteris Renewables, a Wilton, Conn., company with an office in Bristol, is installing the turbine. The company also put up the seven rows of solar panels on the building that houses the institute’s electrical technology program.

Alteris has poured the concrete foundation for the Northwind 100 turbine manufactured by Northern Power of Vermont. It will install the machine’s three sections over three days, starting Monday and finishing Wednesday.

The turbine was set to go up soon after the solar energy system, but engineering complications delayed the installation. Parsons said the main problem was that the location for the turbine had to be moved within the parking lot next to the automotive technology building.

The school received a variance from the Warwick Planning Board and has also gotten permission from the state Department of Transportation to build next to the highway and from the state Department of Environmental Management to work next to wetlands in the area.

Once the turbine is in place, students — and curious members of the public — will be able to find a link on the institute’s Web site to a page showing in real time how much power is generated that day and how much total to date.

Starting in the fall, students can enroll in green technology courses and work on the turbine and the solar panels.

“They’re good educational tools for us,” Parsons said.

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