Wind Farm Towers Take Local Turn (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Tower Tech Systems of Manitowoc will build 90 steel towers for Wisconsin's largest wind farm, as We Energies adds a "buy-local" flavor to its renewable energy project near Madison.

The Manitowoc maker of wind turbine towers will build the 262-foot tall towers for turbine maker Vestas. The turbines will be erected next year in Columbia County at the $367 million Glacier Hills Wind Park.

For its part, Vestas is ramping up production of turbines, blades and towers at factories in Colorado. But for this project, Vestas opted to work with Tower Tech Systems, a Manitowoc company that's part of the wind component firm Broadwind Energy Inc. Including factories in Texas and South Dakota, Tower Tech is the third largest producer of wind towers in North America.

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