A local wind turbine manufacturer that blew into Windsor with great fanfare is leaving.
After two years in operations, the president of WindTronics said the provincial feed in tariff (FIT) program is not working for him, so he’s moving the business to Michigan.
Michigan-based WindTronics produced small residential wind turbines. They are to be used similarly to solar panels.
The government said it’s given the company more than enough help and that the company may be leaving the province on the hook for a massive grant that never created jobs..
The province gave the company $2.7 million to open in Windsor — under one condition. The company promised there would be 200 workers in the plant by the end of this year. That is now very unlikely…
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