Construction of a wind farm in eastern Potter County is expected to get underway this year and be operational in 2018.
Big Level Wind LLC, a subsidiary of Walden Green Energy LLC, a privately held New York-based wind development company, plans to build 25 wind turbines in Hector Township, said John Soininen of Walden Green Energy.
“We leased just under 6,800 acres of land from private landowners and the project will have a footprint of approximately 240 of those leased acres,” he told The Era on Wednesday.
Original plans called for a total of 26 wind turbines to be built on about 200 acres of private lands in the township near the border of Tioga County. But a lawsuit between Big Level Wind LLC and JKLM Energy LLC, a natural gas development and production company headquartered in Wexford, changed those plans. The companies since have resolved litigation and reached an agreement on the mutual use of the property.
More details on the major project will be made available when the final schedule is set, Soininen said. More HERE...
