WindStream Technologies, Inc. announced the first deployment of its TowerMill technology in Nassau, Bahamas. The TowerMill pilot is designed to provide energy on a continuous basis to power all of the electronics for the tower's full functionality. The TowerMill is another product line in the company's portfolio and is a derivative of WindStream's patented SolarMill renewable energy technology.

Configured to provide autonomous power to telecommunications towers globally, the TowerMill uses wind and solar energy to charge a battery bank and, as a fail safe, has a fuel-based generator set as a last resort back-up if the batteries cannot provide the needed power. This Bahamas pilot has a hybrid capacity of 10KW, and is installed where there is no available connection to the utility grid. The wind resources in The Bahamas, in combination with solar energy, create the opportunity to recharge batteries up to 24hrs daily, and to greatly improve energy availability and customer reliability.

In addition to the elimination of noise and air pollution from the onsite generator, the need for daily refueling is substantially reduced. The integration of the TowerMill with the cell tower equipment will be commissioned later this week by Walker Industries, a certified solar energy provider in The Bahamas offering design, installation, and maintenance of photovoltaic systems. With data taken from this first pilot, the company will market the TowerMill to other telecommunication companies around the world who face the same cost drivers and challenges of providing 100% reliability for its subscribers while reducing cost and responding to governmental regulation demanding the switch to renewable resources.