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John Webster
South Berthwick, Maine
First PMC: 1991
Twenty-five years ago, on home leave from sailing the world
on Gulf Oil supertankers, John Webster happened upon an article
about hydropower in a New England magazine. "I went down-town
and saw a dam I'd seen hundreds of times," he recalls. "But
this time I saw it differently." Today, twenty-five years
and countless town meetings, mechanical, environmental, archaeological,
and feasibility studies, state and federal licensing struggles,
and bank negotiations later, Webster generates and sells electricity
from five once-abandoned powerhouses to New Hampshire's public
electric company. Still using largely original turbines and
generators- Webster has added computerized control and monitoring
systems- each hydro station can produce up to 5000kw per hour
during soring high water- enough to power a small town.
"What I do is not complicated," says Webster. "You just have
to do it every day." "I'm too stupid to give up."
Types of Photography I'm involved in:
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