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b>Update 10:35 a.m.
BREWSTER -- In a 7-4 roll call vote, the Round Lake-Brewster School Board rejected the option of moving to a four-day school week during its Monday night meeting in Brewster.
LUVERNE -- Roughly the size of two semi trailers and weighing nearly 80 tons, groundbreaking wind-to-battery technology was unveiled in the middle of farm fields northwest of Beaver Creek Monday morning. The battery, the first of its kind to be tested in the United States, will help partners Xcel Energy and Luverne-based Minwind Energy capture and store power produced by the 11.5-megawatt Minwind Energy wind farm. "You don't have to drive very far outside of Luverne to see the progress that we've made," said Dave Sparby, president and CEO of Northern States Power Co., a subsidiary of Xcel En
CHANDLER -- With wind whipping corn husks across roadways and forcing people to hang onto their hats, it seemed fitting weather for the dedication of Minnesota's largest wind farm and wind power transmission line Tuesday afternoon near Chandler. Fenton Wind Project, with its 137 wind turbines in Murray and Nobles counties expected to generate up to 205 megawatts of electricity, will join other area wind farms in delivering an estimated 825 megawatts of power to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area for distribution across the state.