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Support for Renville Co. wind energy proposal is on the rise

OLIVIA -- A proposal to erect one of the state's largest wind farms amidst some of its most productive farm lands found clear sailing Tuesday with the Renville County Board...

news / region / community Wed, Nov 18, 2009 - 12:00am

These H-shaped power poles currently carry a 115-kilovolt power line to the Minnesota Falls substation adjacent to the Xcel Energy plant in Granite Falls.The CapX project proposes replacing them with single, steel poles carrying a 345-kV line. The new poles would range from 130 to 175 feet in height, depending on terrain, and the average span between poles would be 1,000 feet. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

Residents get up close look at tall project

GRANITE FALLS -- A handful of people came out to pore over maps and see how plans to invest $700 million and build a high-voltage line from Brookings, S.D., to...

news / region Tue, Nov 17, 2009 - 12:00am

An existing 230-kilovolt power line is shown Wednesday near Granite Falls. The now-defunct Big Stone II project included plans to upgrade transmission capacity on two corridors in the region: a line from the existing Big Stone plant near Milbank, S.D., to Morris and a line from the plant to Canby and from Canby to Granite Falls. Though a second plant will not be built, there remains interest by unnamed parties to preserve the route of the planned upgrades. Tribune photo by Susan Lunneborg

Big Stone power plant plans go down, but will the lines still go up?

WILLMAR -- Plans to build the coal-fired Big Stone II power plant have gone down, but there apparently remains interest in seeing upgraded transmission lines going up that were once...

news Thu, Nov 12, 2009 - 12:00am

Letter: Common sense has prevailed

This letter is in response to the West Central Tribune Oct. 27 article on the Big Stone II coal plant. I'd planned on running it into the ground again but...

opinion / letters Sat, Nov 07, 2009 - 12:00am

A worker with Henkels & McCoy, of Blue Bell, Pa., makes adjustments Wednesday as the three rotor blades on Olivia's newly erected wind turbine are attached. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

New wind turbine has Olivia buzzing

OLIVIA -- It's a late, muddy and vexing harvest and the conference champion BOLD football Warriors are marching into the playoffs. And yet, the topic that is getting talked up...

news / region Thu, Oct 29, 2009 - 12:00am

Olivia is latest city to embrace wind energy

OLIVIA -- Olivia's famous corn monument is about to be overshadowed, and by the doing of its own city fathers no less. All of the components for a wind turbine...

news / region Thu, Oct 08, 2009 - 12:00am

Cindy Forbes cleans her hands between customers Thursday at Cash Wise Foods in Willmar. Customers and employees of the grocery store have access to sanitizer for their hands, grocery carts or other surfaces. Tribune photo by Gary Miller

CDC recommends relaxing rules of sick leave during flu outbreak

WILLMAR -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending employers relax their requirement for a doctor's note to validate illness for employees who were out sick with the...

news Sat, Sep 26, 2009 - 12:00am

Otter Tail Power pulls out of Big Stone II project

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The utility leading an effort to build a $1.6 billion coal-fired power plant in South Dakota that would serve five states has pulled out of the project...

news / region Fri, Sep 11, 2009 - 4:04pm

Erik Thompson, president of Prairie Sun Bank, has discovered that small wind projects can come with big frustrations and costs. He stands by a 120-foot-long tower that has been lying prone since last April. It will soon be hoisted with a 20-kilowatt Jacob's wind turbine atop it, but it will be many weeks, if not months, before the turbine can be put to work. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

President of Milan and Appleton bank is finding his small wind energy initiative comes with a large cost

MILAN -- Small wind can come with a big price tag. Just ask Erik Thompson, president of the Prairie Sun Bank of Milan and Appleton. He's been working to erect...

business / region Tue, Sep 08, 2009 - 12:00am

Roger Minnick, left, and Guy Osterfeld, employees with Willmar Municipal Utilities, replace the underground power line along Russell Street on Willmar's north side, a tough chore given the sporadic rain throughout the late morning and early afternoon. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

That old water and electricity thing

news / local Fri, Aug 21, 2009 - 12:00am

Emergency personnel are pictured Tuesday at the scene of an accident near 19th Avenue Southwest after a Texas woman fainted behind the wheel of her minivan and crashed into a utility pole. Tribune photo by Gary Miller

Driver faints, knocks out power around Kandi Mall

WILLMAR -- A Fresnos, Texas, woman fainted while driving east on 19th Avenue Southeast in Willmar on Tuesday, crashing head-on into a utility pole and knocking out power throughout the...

news / local Wed, Jul 08, 2009 - 12:00am

Arthur Oien of Minneapolis, left, and David Leinonen of Cokato mull over the workings of an antique engine Sunday morning during the annual Antique Power Show near Blomkest. The featured tractor at this year's show was the Case tractor. This was the first year that the power machinery show was held at their new location outside of Blomkest on state Highway 7. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

news / local Mon, Jun 29, 2009 - 12:00am

Pipestone wind turbine plant laying off up to 160

PIPESTONE, Minn. - A wind power company in southwestern Minnesota has announced it will eliminate 70 jobs this summer with another 90 layoffs possible by the end of September. According...

region Mon, Jun 08, 2009 - 9:09am

Power line trips out west of Benson

BENSON -- Benson area residents made do with cold breakfasts this morning when an electric transmission line outside of the community tripped, leaving the community and the neighboring DeGraff and...

news / local / region Wed, May 13, 2009 - 9:38am

Tom Leenstra, left, and Joe Baker set the bearings Wednesday on the front grate drive shaft of the Willmar power plant boiler during annual maintenance. Workers have been busy of late performing annual maintenance at the plant. Tribune photo by Gary Miller

Annual maintenance at power plant is moving along steadily

WILLMAR -- Employees at the Willmar Municipal Utilities power plant are doing a lot of heavy lifting these days. They're changing and repairing gears, shafts and cast-iron boiler parts weighing...

news Sat, May 02, 2009 - 12:00am

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