Wisconsin Rapids company mulls Great Lakes wind farms

From an article by Nathaniel Shuda in the Wausau Daily Herald:

As leaders of a Wisconsin Rapids company finalize logistics of a planned local manufacturing plant, they have their sights set on an even larger project.

Officials with Energy Composites Corp. are developing a group to build wind farms on the Great Lakes, said Sam Fairchild, chief executive officer.

"There have been a lot of groups trying to align some interest in the Great Lakes in terms of energy," Fairchild said Friday. "The problem is no one is trying to build wind farms in the Great Lakes. That's what we're trying to do."

Two weeks after announcing plans to form what it's calling a Great Lakes Consortium, Energy Composites already has attracted the attention of state and federal officials, outside energy companies and power utilities in states surrounding the lakes, Fairchild said. Because of that, company leaders are trying to acquire federal funding for wind development.

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