Small Wind Turbine coming to Lorain

Small 20kw Wind Turbine

Lorain City Council unanimously passes proposed amendment to Codified Ordinance Chapter 1173, Section 1173.04 & 1173.06 to allow for small wind turbines as a conditionally permissible use.

With the conditional use permit local company's can apply for State of Ohio, Renewable Energy grants which can fund 50% or up to $150,000 of the project.

When the grant is acquired the turbine would be ordered. The concrete pad and wiring installation can typical be completed in a day.

The retail power offset via a system called net metering is consumer wind behind the meter. Net metering applications would essentially wipe out a portion the electricity bill.

The scheduled date for completion of Lorain's first wind turbine will be in 2009.

St George's Renewable Energies LLC submits request to Lorain City Council for Submerged Land Leases

St. George’s Renewable Energies LLC. is requesting legislative sponsorship with respect to council support of legislation that will grant the right of first refusal to St. George’s Renewable Energies LLC. for 13 offshore submerged land leases within the municipal jurisdiction of The City of Lorain, Ohio.

The preliminary locations of the requested offshore submerged land leases will be within a 2 mile by 3 mile area located offshore initiating at the western jurisdictional boundary of The City of Lorain, Ohio and proceeding east for a distance of 3 miles.

It is the intention of St. George’s Renewable Energies LLC to develop a world class distributed generation facility using wind as the primary source of fuel in the production of electrical energy. This renewable energy would then be marketed to local public utilities for final transmission. The requested offshore leases from the City of Lorain, Ohio will be a phase two of a three phase development with phase one being development of onshore distributed generation wind facilities in the same general area.

Phase three will be a greater offshore distributed generation wind facility consisting of 480 turbines to be located within the offshore jurisdictional boundaries of Lorain County extending to one mile of the international boundary with the country of Canada.