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Energy company offers payments to turbine neighbors.
One of the companies working on a proposed wind energy project in southeastern Lenawee County told a gathering Tuesday night that it would pay neighbors of parcels with the proposed windmills $1,500 a year. ...To receive the payment, people would have to live within a half-mile of a turbine, according to the news release.
January 21, 2011
in Daily Telegram
RIGA TWP., Mich. - One of the companies working on a proposed wind energy project in southeastern Lenawee County told a gathering Tuesday night that it would pay neighbors of parcels with the proposed windmills $1,500 a year.
Great Lakes Wind LLC, based in Lenawee County, and Exelon Wind, a division of Exelon Power of Chicago, are looking to place wind turbines in three Lenawee County townships. Exelon Wind currently operates 36 wind projects in eight states. The 81-megawatt southeast Lenawee County project would produce enough clean electricity to power 20,000 homes, Larry Gould, president of Great Lakes Wind, said in... [continue via Web link]
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