Company developing wind turbine in Whitehall

The planned relocation of a wind turbine manufacturer to Whitehall that has been years in the making has community leaders hopeful for economic benefits to the area beyond jobs with the manufacturer.

LGT Sustainable Energy Systems relocated to Sunlight Business Park in Whitehall from a research and development facility in Lolo about a year ago. Tom Harrington, Jefferson Local Development Corporation co-manager, said he has been working with LGT-SES for about five years to encourage them to move.

“We actually looked at potential wind development down here before they came in the picture,” he said. “We did some anemometer testing just to validate that we had a good wind site, and it did prove out to be a good wind resource here.”