DTE Energy Inc.’s Detroit Edison unit has launched commercial operation of a wind farm in northern Michigan with a Traverse City company.
Detroit Edison says the facility, jointly operated with Heritage Sustainable Energy east of Cadillac in Missaukee County, is the utility’s largest such venture. It’s expected to supply enough electricity to power about 2,000 homes.
Detroit Edison said Tuesday that it’s also the utility’s first wind farm developed under the state’s energy law enacted in October 2008. It requires that 10 percent of Michigan’s power come from renewable sources by the end of 2015.
The seven large-scale wind turbines are capable of producing about 14 megawatts of renewable energy. Detroit Edison expects to add about 1,200 megawatts of renewable power, mainly from wind, by 2015. (AP)
