Located in Griggs and Steele counties, the Ashtabula II Wind Energy Center consists of 80 1.5MW GE XLE turbines for a nameplate capacity of 120MW. The wind farm originally reached commercial operation in November 2009. Great River Energy will begin receiving power from the facility in August.
Mark Fagan, manager of resource planning at Great River Energy, said: “Minnesota has an ambitious renewable energy standard that requires electric utilities to generate 25% of their electricity from renewable resources by 2025. The addition of the output from the Ashtabula II Wind Energy Center brings us one small step closer to that goal.”
Great River Energy provides wholesale electric service to 28 distribution cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
