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Triple Creek Windfarm

Developer: Nature Energies

Type of project: Commercial

Location: South of Kasson in Dodge County

Turbines: 34, total 50 MW

Estimated operation date: 2010-2012

Current status: Landowner agreements in place; permitting and engineering is under way; turbine supply agreement is under negotiation

Root River Energy, LLC

Developer: National Wind

Type of project: C-BED

Location: Fillmore and Mower counties

Turbines: Not available, total 300 MW

Estimated operation date: 2013

Current status: Securing landowner agreements and doing wind study

Goodhue Wind, LLC

Developer: National Wind

Type of project: C-BED

Location: Goodhue County

Turbines: Not available, total 78 MW

Estimated operation date: 2010

Current status: Securing landowner agreements and doing wind study

High Country Energy, LLC

Developer: National Wind

Type of Project: C-BED

Location: Dodge and Olmsted counties

Turbines: Not available, total 300 MW

Estimated operation date: 2011

Current status: In the process of landowner agreements and the wind study

Bent Tree Wind Farm

Developer: Wisconsin Power and Light Company

Type of Project: Commercial

Location: Freeborn County

Turbines: Not available, total 200 MW with possibility of another 200 MW

Estimated operation date: 2010

Current status: Awaiting word from Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on Certificate of Need application

Eyota-Viola Wind Farm

Developer: Nature Energies

Type of project: Commercial

Location: Between Eyota and Viola in Olmsted County

Turbines: 40, total 60 MW

Estimated operation date: 2010

Current status: Landowner agreements in place, permitting and engineering are under way; turbine supply agreement is under negotiation

Dodge County Wind Farm

Developer: Nature Energies

Type of project: Commercial

Location: Between Dodge Center, Hayfield, Blooming Prairie and Claremont in Dodge County

Turbines: 300, total 450 MW

Estimated operation date: 2011 or 2012

Current status: Working on landowner agreements; permitting and engineering is under way; turbine supply agreement is under negotiation

Kenyon Wind Project

(made up of nine separate limited-liability companies)

Developer: Kenyon Wind, LLC

Type of project: C-BED

Location: Kenyon and Cherry Grove townships in Goodhue County

Turbines: 9, total 18.9 MW

Estimated operation date: Information not available

Current status: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission extended site permit for Kenyon Wind, LLC; working on power purchase agreement with utility companies

Crane Creek Wind Farm

Developer: enXco

Type of project: Commercial

Location: South of LeRoy, near Riceville in Howard County, Iowa

Turbines: 66, total 99 MW

Estimated operation date: December '09

Current status: Seeking land easements and project design

Winona

Developer: Juhl Wind

Type of Project: C-BED

Location: Just outside of Winona

Turbines: 2, total 1.8 or 2 MW

Estimated operation date: 2009

Current status: Negotiating power purchase agreements

Brownsdale

Developer: Juhl Wind

Type of Project: C-BED

Location: 2.5 miles north of Brownsdale in Waltham Township in Mower County

Turbines: 40, total 40 MW

Estimated operation date: 2010

Current status: Interconnection phase; conducting studies to see how the project would plug into the grid; land is secured and permitting is complete

EcoHarmony West Wind Project

Developer: EcoEnergy; EcoHarmony West Wind, LLC

Type of Project: Commercial

Location: Harmony, Bristol, York, Carimona, Forestville and Preston townships in Fillmore County

Turbines: Either 134 1.5-MW turbines or 87 2.3-MW turbines, total 200 MW

Estimated operation date: Not available

Current status: Site permit application accepted by Minnesota Public Utilities Commission; holding public meetings and hearings on the project

Also in the works

Three or four more C-BED projects from Juhl Wind are in the feasibility study stage.

Sarah Doty

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