More Than 20,000 Acres Secured for Community Wind Project

From The Farmer
By Staff
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Root River Energy, along with managing partner, National Wind, recently announced that it has secured more than 20,000 acres of land in Mower and Fillmore Counties.

This represents about two-thirds of the leased acres needed to develop up to 300 megawatts of community-owned wind energy in the area. With 10,000 acres signed inthe last few months, Root River Energy's Jim Connolly and Barry Rogne have been one of National Wind's most productive field teams during this period.

Over 7,600 of these acres are located in the eastern Mower County footprint, an area Root River Energy expanded into during the Spring of 2009. The project's overall goal is
to sign 30,000 contiguous acres.

Copyright The Farmer, 2009