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Minnesota group pares wind power project
An old gravel pit in Lyon County could end up providing metro area counties with wind power if a long-awaited plan to wire renewable energy from southwestern Minnesota to the metro area materializes.
But finding investors to help erect the tall white towers has proved difficult, and plans were scaled down significantly since rural and Twin Cities area counties established a joint committee to build up to a 150-megawatt wind farm.
September 23, 2009
by Bob Geiger
in The Daily Reporter
Minneapolis - An old gravel pit in Lyon County could end up providing metro area counties with wind power if a long-awaited plan to wire renewable energy from southwestern Minnesota to the metro area materializes.
But finding investors to help erect the tall white towers has proved difficult, and plans were scaled down significantly since rural and Twin Cities area counties established a joint committee to build up to a 150-megawatt wind farm.
"If everything would go exactly perfect, we would be breaking ground sometime next spring," said Jay Trusty, executive director of the Southwest Regional Development Commission and member of the... [continue via Web link]
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