Energy company
seeking leases for wind turbines
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2/2/2008,
5:15 p.m. ET The
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STANTON
TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Wind could someday be generating electricity in
Houghton County in western Upper Michigan.
Heritage
Sustainable Energy LLC has been securing leases from property owners along a
ridge in the central part of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The Traverse City-based
company hopes to be able to lease 2,000 to 3,000 acres, then begin testing the
area's wind potential.
Project
coordinator Rick Wilson says the company proposes erecting three-bladed upwind
turbines, but more analysis is needed. He tells The Daily Mining Gazette of
Houghton that the power generated by the turbines would be sold on the
electricity market.
Wilson says
lessors will receive royalty payments for the power generated by turbines on
their land if the wind farm is developed.