Officials for Rice Management Inc. knew they wanted to build a wind turbine after purchasing the Maple Lane Health Care Center from Shawano County.
“Rice Management really looks to the future,” said Colinda Clark, administrator of what is now the Maple Lane Health and Rehabilitation Center. “When Rice Management purchased the building that is one of the things they were looking at.”
On Wednesday a 100-foot wind turbine was erected in front of the building with great enthusiasm. “The turbine will help us reduce energy costs so we can do more improvements for the building and do more things for the residents here,” said Clark.
Clark has never seen a wind turbine up close but stated that while in Iowa over the holidays she noticed how well the state and businesses in the state have used wind power as a form of renewable energy. “I’m very excited to know that we are enhancing the life of the earth by installing a turbine,” said Clark.
The turbine at the Maple Lane Health and Rehabilitation Center has blades that are 32 feet in diameter and will produce a maximum 20 kilowatts or 20,000 watts of power when the wind is blowing hard enough.
“The 20 kilowatts is enough energy to power three to five smaller homes,” states Jeff Ehlers, president of Renewergy Inc. located in Oshkosh.
Rice management did not build a wind turbine. Rice management is a nursing home facility and takes care of old people. They paid a company to erect a wind turbine onsite. Colinda Clark is not the administrator of maple lane. She got fired from the place for misconduct.
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