Projects

The Jeffers Wind Energy Center’s Jeffers 20 project is a 50 MW wind farm in Cottonwood County, Minnesota. Patrick Pelstring and his partner Jack Levi of 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.

Broadview Energy, LLC is a project particularly designed to capitalize on the Tres Amigas Transmission Interconnect Project.  Tres Amigas has the ability to accept and deliver power to the 23 states served by the Western Interconnect (WECC), the Southern Power Pool, (SPP), and ERCOT, the Texas interconnect.  Located in on the Texas/New Mexico boarder of Curry and Deaf Smith Counties, Broadview has over 80,000 acres under control and has the potential to be one of the largest wind farms in the region.

Buffalo Wind Energy, LLC was formed to develop 300 megawatts of clean, renewable wind energy in Randall and Deaf Smith Counties, Texas. Buffalo Wind Energy currently has over 29,000 acres under lease between the towns of Amarillo and Umbarger along with the direct participation of several area families. Throughout the last year, the Board of Advisors, along with a local attorney have worked in tandem with NRS and KRS Energy to structure the project and build local interest and participation in the Buffalo Wind project.

Dakota Wind Energy, LLC is a community-based wind energy development company in Northeast South Dakota. National Renewable Solutions is the manager and developer of Dakota Wind Energy. This coule 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.

Eastern Shore Energy, LLC is a community-based wind development company located in Worcester and Somerset Counties in Maryland. Eastern Shore has partnered with the Maryland Hawk Corporation, which is a division of the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore and a university affiliated foundation 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. The company’s objective is to develop 120 MW’s or more of wind turbine-based renewable energy. ESE and Maryland Hawk is focused on the commercialization and entrepreneurial development of intellectual property developed at the University a Historically Black University (HBCU) and the 1890 Land Grant institution for the State of Maryland.

Greycliff Wind is a 100MW project near Big Timber, MT in Sweet Grass County.  The project area has 25,000 acres available for development.  The transmission is filed with NorthWestern Energy and should be interconnected by 12/31/2012.

Little Rock Wind, LLC is developing 150 MW of community wind projects in Big Stone County, MN. In May 2009, Little Rock 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.

Norfolk Wind Energy and NRS 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. An expansion would likely add around 8,000 acres of developable land to the existing 9,000 already under lease.