Wind power in Minnesota
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Wind farm
A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...
s generated nearly 10 percent of the electricity generated in the state in 2010. Large wind farms in Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
include the Buffalo Ridge Wind Farm
Buffalo Ridge Wind Farm
Buffalo Ridge Wind Farm is a large wind farm near Lake Benton, Minnesota that is located on the geological Buffalo Ridge.- History :In 1994, a Minnesota legislative mandate increased the demand for wind power in Minnesota. Buffalo Ridge's geography is well suited for wind power and it has been...
(225 MW), the Fenton Wind Farm
Fenton Wind Farm
The Fenton Wind Farm is a 205.5 megawatt wind energy project built by , that became operational in the second half of 2007. The $385-million project is in Chandler, Minnesota on a site that encompasses Murray and Nobles counties and consists of 137 GE 1.5 MW wind turbines.Power generated by the...
(205.5 MW), the Nobles Wind Farm (201 MW) and the Bent Tree Wind Farm (201 MW).
See also
- List of wind farms in the United States
- Wind power in the United StatesWind power in the United StatesAs of the third quarter of 2011, the cumulative installed capacity of wind power in the United States was 43,461 megawatts , making it second in the world, behind China. In 2010 wind power accounted for 2.3% of the electricity generated in the United States...