Holland High Lift has commissioned a 25-kilowatt wind turbine at its facility in East Bethany, N.Y. The turbine was installed by Buffalo Renewables of Amherst, N.Y. The clean energy from this turbine will be used to run the company’s offices, repair shop, and to recharge the portion of its rental equipment fleet that is battery charged.
“These systems use net metering which means on windy days when we make an energy surplus that electricity gets sent to National Grid for others to use and this gives us a credit of electricity from the grid for days with little or no wind,” said a Holland Lift official. “Going forward this turbine should provide for the majority of our electricity needs.”
Holland High Lift is an aerial focused sales and rental company, in business since 1982. It sells, services, rents and stocks parts for nearly all makes and models of mobile elevating work platforms. It has equipment manufactured by Grove, Genie, Snorkel, JLG, Lull, Terex, MEC, SkyTrak, Takeuchi and more. It has a large inventory of parts.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.