Lake Erie Wind Farm Gets an Unexpected $40 Million From the Feds

By: M.L. Schultze, WKSU
Friday, May 27, 2016

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $40 million to the group building a wind farm in Lake Erie. It’s one of three wind-power demonstration projects in the country to get the money, and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur called it “somewhat of a surprise,” after projects in Virginia and Oregon were downgraded. The three-year award is going to LEEDCo, which is building turbines about 10 miles off the coast of Cleveland. It would be the first fresh-water wind farm in the country and one of the first off-shore operations in the U.S. LEEDCo President Lorry Wagner described the federal money as “transformational” for the project.

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