© 2024 WNMU-FM
Upper Great Lakes News, Music, and Arts & Culture
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Sands Township solar project the topic of Friday webinar

MARQUETTE, MI--   An Upper Peninsula native will talk Friday about a proposed solar array project in Marquette County.  

Courtney Timmons was born and raised in Gwinn and graduated from NMU in 2006. He’s the development director of the Superior Solar Project, which would place solar panels on about 2,000 acres of land in Sands Township. The project is being developed by solar and energy storage company Savion, LLC. The arrays are expected to generate around 150 megawatts of energy for the local area.

NMU is hosting a Climate@Noon webinar featuring Timmons and the Superior Solar Project Friday at 12 p.m. The information needed to participate is as follows:

SUPERIOR SOLAR

Friday, February 12th at Noon 

Courtney Timmons, Savion LLC

Zoom link: https://nmu.zoom.us/j/98800080959?pwd=SDlqVDI3bjY5MTJMZFlTb2Jwbk1pdz09

Passcode: climate

 

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.