With all the discussion and controversy about Traverse City Light and Power's on-again off-again plans to build a wood-burning plant in Greilickville, it's worth reminding ourselves that other approaches to meeting the community's power needs are being discussed.

Several weeks ago we reported on the preliminary plans of Noble Environmental Power to build a farm of wind turbines in Centerville township. Now comes this Michigan Daily story on another project by the same company in Bingham township (that's Bingham township in Clinton County, not Leelanau) that is quite a bit further along.