The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) approved a certificate of need and draft site permit for the 78-megawatt Goodhue Wind project, which is being developed by T. Boone Pickens’s Mesa Power Group and General Electric.
The two companies have teamed up to form a joint venture called American Wind Alliance that is financing and supplying wind turbines for the proposed 78-megawatt wind farm, which will generate enough electricity to power an estimated 70,000 homes. National Wind, a Minneapolis-based wind development company, is the developer of the project,
MPUC’s unanimous decision gave the green light for the project’s developers to create a draft turbine site map. The commission also granted a certificate of need for the energy, which Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy has contracted to purchase.
When completed, the planned $175 million project will include 52 wind turbines capable of generating 1.5 megawatts of power.
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