Group pushes for New York State’s help in building wind turbines
David Robinson
With the state planning to pump $1 billion over the next decade into solar projects, a group of local businesses and environmentalists are wondering: What about wind energy?
With the strong winds blowing across Lakes Erie and Ontario making a large swath of Western New York appealing for wind turbines, advocates said it makes sense for the state to support the development of wind energy as a prime source of renewable energy in the state.
“We really need to develop more in terms of the wind industry,” said Thomas E. Fleckenstein, the owner of Niagara Wind & Solar, a Niagara Falls renewable energy contractor.
“We know that we have the resource here,” he said during a news conference Thursday where 60 local businesses backed a campaign urging Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to put more money into initiatives to expand wind energy projects.
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