Freeport, Ill. - A settlement agreement has been reached in the lawsuit filed to halt a $120 million wind farm project between Freeport and Dakota, and construction on the farm may begin as soon as 2011, said company officials.

"By this late time, it would be difficult to build in 2010, because of the long lead time for ordering equipment," said Wanda Davies, director of development for the Midwest region for Gamesa Energy, the parent company of the Minnesota-based Navitas Energy. "Transformers have a lead time of a year or more for ordering. It's more likely that construction would happen in... [continue via Web link]