Brighton Firm Eyed For Second Ishpeming Wind Turbine
Ishpeming's Birchview Elementary School may soon become the site for a wind turbine, according to the Marquette Mining Journal.
The Ishpeming school board voted Monday to begin an assessment of the location by Brighton-based Clean Green Energy, LLC, pending the approval by the district's attorneys.
"The Birchview school's a good area for this because it's quite a windy area," Superintendent Stephen Piereson said.
If it goes forward, the turbine would be the second in the Ishpeming area. Developers of the wind turbine project at Ishpeming's 88-unit Pioneer Bluff Apartments, a senior housing complex, hope to have that structure producing energy this year.
If the Birchview assessment indicates that a wind turbine would be economically beneficial for the district and that an alternative energy system could work at the site, Clean Green Energy would construct the generation facility at no cost to the district. The district would then purchase the energy produced at the site for 20 years.
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