http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11832559
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The town is Tocco Da Casauria and it is being held up as an example of what is possible with renewable energy.
The electricity they generate is not just a top-up for other sources of energy. It is the only source of energy.
Wind powers the entire town of nearly 3,000 people.
So efficient are the turbines that they produce 30% more electricity than is needed, and so the extra is sold back to Italy's equivalent of the national grid.
That creates a profit of nearly 170,000 euros (£144,000, $227,000) a year and it is that money which is being pumped back into local services, enabling everything from street-cleaning and school meals, to grass-cutting and street-lighting to be subsidised.