Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Wind turbine firm to create 100 jobs in Darke County - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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Greenville-based , which has six employees, is embarkin on a $1 millioh project that will create 100 jobs withithree years, the state announced Tuesday. The is awardinbg a 50 percent job creation tax creditt fora six-year term to LAH worth $390,880, beginning in LAH had been heavy into site development and building fabrication. But it is morphing to engineering, manufacturiny and installation of wind turbine assemblies on wind farm according tothe state. Darke County Commissioner Michael Rhoades said the project has been wrappedin secrecy.
Rhoades suspecteds the project was related to wind farms becauser three wind turbine companieas have suddenly began courting farmers in Arcanuj and Union City to covert farm land into wind The Darke County Board of Commissionerse also is providingabout $188,000 for workforce training of about 120 employees, according to state records. The funding slid into place aftef word came about three weeks ago of a potential renewablseenergy project. The news prompted the county, city and stat to lock arms and bring the project to Ohio as opposed to numerouas statesincluding Illinois, Montana, Arizona and Missouri, officials said.
Greenville Mayorf Michael Bowers declined to commeng about the project until he could reachu the companyfor authorization. The maestrko of the project isGreg Hart, a Darke Count entrepreneur, Rhoades said. Hart couled not be reached for comment. LAH will purchass an existing facilityin Greenville, with a five-yearf lease to engineer, install and manage wind turbines on wind farm sites while selling the power to according to the state. LAH pland to hire wind turbinepress operators, back officed staff, information technology and researcj and development employees for the proposedc project, according to the state. The averagde wage of the new jobs willbe $22.355 per hour, plus $5.
83 per hour in benefits, accordiny to the state.

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