Our Projects

The Jeffers Wind Energy Center’s Jeffers 20 project is a 50 MW wind farm in Cottonwood County, Minnesota. National Wind (then known as Wind Energy Developers) developed the project with locally based Summit Wind, LLC. Carstensen Contracting completed the construction of 20 Clipper 2.5 MW turbines in 2008. The project is operational and supplying electricity to Xcel Energy.

National Wind co-developed M-Power North Field as part of the 169.5 MW Luverne Wind Farm in east-central North Dakota, with locally based M-Power, LLC. The North Field is located in Steele County and consists of 33 General Electric 1.5 MW turbines for a total production of 49.5 MW. The North Field was sold to Otter Tail Power Company and construction was completed in 2009. National Wind completed its involvement on April 17th, 2009. Since that date, it is no longer associated with M-Power. The M-Power North Field is currently operational.

National Wind co-developed M-Power North Field as part of the 169.5 MW Luverne Wind Farm in east-central North Dakota, with locally based M-Power, LLC. The South Field is located in Griggs County and consists of 80 General Electric 1.5 MW turbines for a total production of 120 MW. The South Field was sold to Ashtabula Wind, LLC and construction was completed in 2009. National Wind completed its involvement on April 17th, 2009. Since that date, it is no longer associated with M-Power. The M-Power South Field is currently operational.

National Wind is currently developing the 200 MW Northstar Wind Farms project with Emmet County Energy, LLC. The project footprint includes portions of Emmet and Dickinson Counties in Northwest Iowa. With 100% site control, a micro-sited turbine layout, and completed Right of Way acquisition for a private transmission line, great progress continues to be made.

High Country Energy, LLC, is a local wind development company based in Kasson, MN. National Wind is the manager of High Country Energy and the developer of its 300 MW community wind development. The development is split into two distinct project areas: the North Footprint and the South Footprint; each is expected to host 150 MW of wind power.

Dakota Wind Energy is a community-based wind energy development company in Northeast South Dakota. National Wind is the manager and developer of Dakota Wind Energy. This is one of the world’s largest community-based wind developments: a 750 to 800 MW family of wind projects to be built in multiple phases in Roberts, Marshall, and Day Counties, South Dakota.

National Wind is developing the Root River Energy wind project. This 300MW wind energy facility will likely be built in phases in eastern Mower and western Fillmore counties in southeast Minnesota. This community wind project will be owned by a combination of community and private investors and National Wind, with an intent to develop it as a CBED-compliant project.

Lake Country Wind Energy is developing 340 MW of community-owned wind projects in Meeker and Kandiyohi Counties in central Minnesota. National Wind is the manager and developer of Lake Country Wind Energy.

National Wind is the developer of Red Rock Wind Energy’s 300 MW community wind project in Emmet and Dickinson Counties in Iowa. The Red Rock Wind Energy footprint is adjacent to the Northstar Wind project.

NECO Wind is working on one of Colorado’s largest wind developments. Under the management of National Wind, NECO Wind is developing 650 megawatts of community-based wind projects in Sedgwick, Logan, and Phillips Counties in Northeast Colorado. To our knowledge, NECO Wind is developing the first utility-scale community wind project in Northeast Colorado. It has received a warm welcome from landowners and area utilities and received a $2.5 million grant from the US Department of Energy to finance the first phase of construction.

National Wind is developing and managing Goodhue Wind in the southeastern Minnesota county of Goodhue. With two nearby points of interconnection in the advanced stages of interconnection study process, locally based Goodhue Wind intends to begin delivering 78 MW of community wind energy to the grid in 2010.

Little Rock Wind is developing 150 MW of community wind projects in Big Stone County, MN. In May 2009, Little Rock Wind, LLC, along with its managing partner, National Wind, LLC, closed on an asset purchase agreement with a community-owned wind project called Big Stone Wind, LLC. The assets Little Rock Wind, LLC, acquired include development capital, land rights to develop a 20 megawatt wind project, an 80 meter meteorological tower and historical wind data, and various in-progress development assets.

National Wind began managing and developing Northwest Ohio Wind Energy in February 2009. The project has had a quick start in Paulding and Van Wert Counties due to growing interest in wind energy in the state of Ohio. It is generating landowner interest as the first community-based development in the area. Northwest Ohio Wind Energy hopes to help utilities meet Ohio’s Renewable Portfolio Standard, enacted in May 2008, by developing 300 MW of community-owned renewable energy in the state.

Norfolk Wind Energy and National Wind are co-developing 40 MW of community-based wind energy in Renville County, MN. The joint developers are considering an expansion of the development to 200 MW. Since National Wind’s involvement, Norfolk Wind Energy, the area’s first utility-scale community wind development company, has had a quick start in the land-leasing process.

National Wind is currently developing the 500+ MW Judith Highlands wind project in Judith Basin, Wheatland, Golden Valley, and Fergus Counties in Montana. Currently, the project incorporates over 50,000 acres, nearly 100% of the land needed to develop the wind farm’s first phase. The project is expected to be developed in multiple 100+ megawatt phases over the next 5 to 8 years.

Buffalo Wind Energy, LLC was formed to develop 300 megawatts of clean, renewable wind energy in Randall County, Texas. Buffalo Wind Energy currently has 14,500 acres under lease between the towns of Amarillo and Umbarger along with the direct participation of 12 area families. Throughout the last year, the Board of Advisors, along with local attorney, James Wester, has worked in tandem with National Wind and KRS Energy to structure the project and build local interest and participation in the Buffalo Wind Project.