HAYFIELD, Minn. (AP) - A wind energy company hopes to develop a new wind farm in southern Minnesota that could power as many as 100,000 homes, officials said.
The farm, which would have as many as 300 wind turbines, would be a 450 megawatt facility in western Dodge County, said Jeff Cook-Coyle, development vice president with European-based Nature Energies.
The proposed location is ideal for a wind farm because it has good wind and other attributes, Cook-Coyle said.
"It's a beautiful site for a project," he said. "It's flat and it's open without a lot of houses, and it works with how we want to interconnect the project to the transmission system."
Two other wind farm proposals are already in the works in Dodge County -- one by High Country Energy and another by Renewable Energy Systems.
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The county already has a 41-turbine farm run by McNeilus Wind.
