The study, part of a financial award of about $3m that LEEDCo received last year from the US Department of Energy, builds on early-stage geotechnical work that it completed there in 2013.

"This is an important milestone and demonstrates tangible progress towards the first offshore wind project in the Great Lakes, and in creating a new industry on the shores of Lake Erie to provide clean energy for our environment and jobs for our economy,” says LEEDCo President Lorry Wagner.

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