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Saco’s windmill spins Friday outside the train station. It has generated only a fraction of the expected power since it was installed in February 2008.

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Entegrity Wind Systems, which sold a windmill to the town of Kittery and the one above to the city of Saco, has ended up in a Canadian bankruptcy court, where its assets will be sold.

in New England."

There are only a handful of the windmills in New England, he said, including older models in Burlington, Vt., and Orland (where the machine has been disassembled), the two in Saco and Kittery, and machines at homes in New Hampshire and Essex, Mass.

Carter hopes Heath can start a new company because the market for the windmill would probably be stronger if the manufacturer were back in business.

If not, he joked, Kittery could end up putting the windmill up for sale on eBay.

In the meantime, he's trying to find someone with experience working on windmills to climb up the tower and figure out how to release the brakes on the blades, which are 50 feet from tip to tip.

"While we've got it, we might as well use it," Carter said.

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