IMPERIA, ITALY, March 16, 2011 - At the stroke of midnight, an Italian flag will be illuminated on the façade of Imperia’s City Hall with green, white, and red LED flood lights powered by a vertical axis wind turbine to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. Imperia, the third largest city in Liguria, has an ambitious plan to green the city under the leadership of Mayor Paolo Strescino. The first step towards this is the installation of an eddy wind turbine by Urban Green Energy atop the bell tower of Liguria's historic city hall, built in 1923, to offset a percentage of the building's electricity. Swiss distributor Greenwire installed the turbine. 

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