Could wind power Lake Superior’s Madeline Island?
August 10, 08 by TheFleetIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Mike Simonsen | Source: Business North
Residents of Madeline Island in the Apostle Islands are drawing up plans to become a self-sustaining energy community, and it could include two commercial grade windmills.
When the wind doesn’t blow and they had a wind turbine it wouldn’t do them much good so they’re still going to need a grid tie but if there’s a decent wind resource out there, one or two of the new fairly large commercial units would probably take care of the island.”
Wojciechski says they’ll need at least a year of good wind data before they’ll know if they can make this happen. But the Madeline Island community is ready to step forward.
