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		<title>PSC acts on two wind energy projects</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first wind farm ever approved in North Dakota has never been built, but may get off the ground now that another company has taken the project over, the North Dakota Public Service Commission said.  
The PSC reissued state certificates Wednesday to Iberdola Renewables Inc. to take over the Rugby Wind farm project from PPM Energy.  
PPM got the original certificates in 2005 to build 100 turbines that would put out 150 megawatts of wind power near Rugby. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Commission mulls wind tower recommendations</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Backyard wind towers would be limited to 35 feet in height under an ordinance proposal being considered by the Minot Planning Commission.
An ad hoc committee of the commission reported Monday on its recommendations for wind towers. The commission formed the committee in response to a turbine request from landowners in a rural subdivision that falls within the city&#8217;s zoning jurisdiction.
The commission voted 10-1 to recommend the Minot City Council deny the request from William and Sandra Carlson for a turbine .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Cooperstown, N.D., wind farm may have to wait until November</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Luverne Wind Farm may have to wait until November or later for final approval. 
The North Dakota Public Service Commission indicated Monday that the 157.5-megawatt wind farm may not be approved until M-Power, LLC, the community-owned developer, completes archaeological and wetlands surveys — and that may not be until after the fall harvest. 
M-Power asked that the wind farm siting be approved, contingent on cultural and wetlands survey results and other data meeting state regulations. 
“Sometimes it’s easier for .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>ND gov candidate proposes wind power goal</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[North Dakota should push for 10,000 megawatts of wind power development in the next 12 years along with local ownership of wind projects, the Democratic candidate for governor says.
Tim Mathern, a Fargo state senator who is challenging Republican Gov. John Hoeven&#8217;s bid for a third term, said Wednesday that the state also should require disclosure of private companies&#8217; contracts with landowners who agree to host wind turbines.
Mathern said at a news conference that he believed property owners who allow wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm official wants county regulations</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jeff Metzger, president of Just Wind, wants to see a set of rules put in place for wind farm development in Stutsman County. 
“We’re looking at 400 turbines in two projects in Stutsman County,” he said. “We’re not the only people looking at coming to North Dakota. We need your support to put a zoning ordinance in place for wind farm projects.”
Metzger was speaking to the Stutsman County Commission concerning the plans of Just Wind to develop a wind farm .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Groups reach wind deal</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Otter Tail Power Co. will buy almost 50 megawatts of capacity from a wind farm planned for Griggs and Steele counties in southeastern North Dakota.
Otter Tail announced Monday that it will buy up to 49.5 megawatts of electricity from M-Power’s Luverne Wind Farm.
The farm will have a capacity of 157.5 megawatts.
The proposed wind farm is pending before the North Dakota Public Service Commission, which is scheduled to conduct a hearing on the project Aug. 25 in Cooperstown.
“There’s a lot of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy company: County may need wind farm zoning laws</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Aug 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stutsman may need zoning restrictions for wind farms, an energy company told the Jamestown Stutsman Development Corp. Board at its regular August meeting Monday.
The board heard a presentation from Just-Wind LLC concerning a proposed wind energy project in the Medina, N.D., area. The project is slated to start in two to three years with an estimated 200 to 400 wind turbines in its first phase of construction.
The Medina project will follow the completion of a wind farm near Napoleon. Construction .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind turbine locations have not been determined</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>29 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A 13-mile 230-kilovolt electric transmission line connecting the proposed &#36;300 million community-owned 157-megwatt Luverne Wind Farm with a Minnkota Power Cooperative transmission line took a step closer to reality Monday.
But the approval process for the wind farm itself stalled, as developers asked the North Dakota Public Service Commission to continue the public hearing at a later date.
It seems the exact locations of the 72 wind turbines in the south half of the project have not been determined yet, according to .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>PSC looks into wind farm plan changes</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The North Dakota Public Service Commission is looking into whether it should penalize the owner of an Ashley wind farm for changing locations of transmission line towers without approval.
Tatanka Wind Power LLC, which is building a 180-megawatt wind farm on the North Dakota-South Dakota border, received a PSC permit for placement of transmission line towers last year. The transmission line is in North Dakota.
But last month, the company’s consultant, Ronald Peterson of Minneapolis, notified the PSC that “a number of .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>N.D. regulators: wind projects may endanger cranes</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Facing a huge increase in North Dakota’s number of wind towers, state regulators promised to pay close attention to the projects’ potential effects on the whooping crane, a huge bird in danger of extinction.
“We generally aren’t happy until you are,” Public Service Commissioner Kevin Cramer told Jeffrey Towner, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife field supervisor in Bismarck, and Terry Ellsworth, an agency wildlife biologist, at a commission meeting Tuesday.
Most of North Dakota’s wind energy projects are outside the normal migratory .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind project threatens coal country</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Minnesota utility said it&#8217;s planning its own mega wind farm in Oliver County, meaning Oliver and Morton counties could some day be home to as many as 1,000 new wind turbines across the hilltops.
At the same time the turbines are capturing mile after mile of wind, they could cover up substantial coal reserves along that southern stretch of Coal Country.
North American Coal Corp. plans to file a new mine permit this fall for a 5,000-acre Otter Creek Mine near .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>PSC approves modified power line route</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Public Service Commission has approved a re-routing of a new high voltage power line &#8212; to avoid some residences and a farm and ranch operation north of Fargo.
Some residents of the Rush River Township in Cass County &#8212; near Argusville &#8212; wanted the line moved away from houses. And one farmer-rancher &#8212; Edward Olson of Argusville &#8212; wanted the line moved more than two miles from his operation &#8212; because of concerns about how stray voltage from the line .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Fish and Wildlife Service seeks protection for Whooping Cranes from turbines</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>11 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fish and Wildlife Service officials plan to meet with the state Public Service Commission next week to talk about protecting endangered whooping cranes from a growing number of wind projects.
Fish and Wildlife Service supervisor Jeffrey Towner agency officials also plan to meet in Denver with 30 wind company representatives.
The FPL Energy company plans to install 667 turbines in Oliver and Morton counties starting in 2010. The counties are on a route used by rare whooping cranes that fly between Canada .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm&#39;s possible affect on whoopers causes worry</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A world&#8217;s-largest scale wind farm proposed for Oliver and Morton counties could snare and kill a migrating endangered species.
Whooping cranes pass through those counties flying between northern Canada and Texas and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is concerned that an explosion of wind farms up and down the Great Plains&#8217; flyway will further endanger the rare birds.
The agency charged with protecting the enormous white cranes will meet with the Public Service Commission next week to talk in general about .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Argusville couple remains fearful of power line plan</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Public Service Commission will decide in less than a week whether to approve a 4.5-mile reroute of Minnkota Power Cooperative’s wind power transmission line near the farm of Edward and Jeanne Olson, rural Argusville, N.D.
The Olsons testified at a PSC hearing Tuesday that the company’s proposed reroute isn’t satisfactory and still brings the high-voltage line adjacent to a rented section where they graze their prize Angus cattle.
They fear their customers will blame stray voltage from the line for any .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind development intrusion</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Jul 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A North Dakota Public Service commissioner says a huge new wind energy project will show how much North Dakotans support wind development.
FPL Energy intends to invest two billion dollars in a wind farm in Oliver and Morton counties.  It will be capable of generating up to a thousand megawatts of electricity.
The project includes construction of 667 wind towers.  FPL Energy hopes to finish it by the end of 2012.
Public Service commissioner Kevin Cramer says the wind farm will .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind developer plans &#36;2 billion North Dakota project</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[North Dakota’s dominant wind energy developer is planning a &#36;2 billion project capable of generating 1,000 megawatts of electricity — triple the amount of wind power the state now produces.
FPL Energy LLC disclosed its plans Thursday in a letter of intent filed with North Dakota’s Public Service Commission, which will hold hearings on the siting of the project once the utility files its formal application next year.
“It almost takes?&#8230;?your breath away to think of how big this particular project is,” .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>&#36;300M wind farm planned for southeast North Dakota</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A wind developer plans to build a 150-megawatt wind farm for an estimated cost of &#36;300 million in southeast North Dakota’s Dickey County.
FPL Energy, the nation’s leading wind developer, wants to begin construction on July 1, with completion by December 2009, Scott Scovill, a project director for the firm, said Tuesday.
If approved by regulators, the wind farm would sprawl over 20 square miles of leased private land at a site about 15 miles northwest of Ellendale.
The wind farm would include .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Regulators approve most of eastern ND wind power line</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[North Dakota regulators approved most of the route for a 61-mile power line to carry electricity from two large wind farms, overriding a township&#8217;s request to change how some of the project should be built.
The board of Reed Township, on the northern outskirts of Riverside, West Fargo and Fargo in Cass County, had asked that Minnkota Power Cooperative be ordered to string part of the 230-kilovolt line and an existing 345-kilovolt line on the same support structure. The practice is .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>ND regulators approve 200-megawatt wind project in eastern ND</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 19:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>30 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[North Dakota regulators have approved construction of a 200-megawatt wind farm in eastern North Dakota.
The Ashtabula Wind project is just north of Valley City. Developers hope to start construction in June. They want to have the wind farm operating by the end of the year.
It includes 133 wind turbines over 77 square miles in Barnes County. The project is east of Lake Ashtabula in east-central North Dakota.
When it`s completed, Ashtabula Wind will be North Dakota`s largest operating wind farm. Commissioner .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Regulators OK special Otter Tail wind charge</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 10:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[North Dakota regulators have granted Otter Tail Power Co.’s request for a special charge to cover the utility’s investment in a wind farm.
The “renewable resource adjustment” will be listed on the bills of Otter Tail’s North Dakota customers beginning in June. It will add about &#36;1.45 to the monthly electric bill of a ratepayer who uses 750 kilowatt-hours of power, said Stephanie Hoff, a utility spokeswoman.
Otter Tail owns part of a new wind farm south of Langdon in northeastern North .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Power companies&#8217; pact means biggest wind farm in N.D.</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 16:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two power companies’ pact this month to sell one existing North Dakota transmission line and build a new one includes a wind farm expansion in Center, N.D., twice as large as any other wind farm either operating or currently planned in North Dakota.
Minnesota Power, based in Duluth, plans to build dozens more wind turbines near Center between 2011 and 2015 and generate 400 megawatts to 600 megawatts of power for its northern Minnesota customers. Spokesman Pat Mullen said the company .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Transmission remains an issue in developing wind power</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 20:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, &#8216;If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development.&#8217; That&#8217;s because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation.&#8221;
BISMARCK &#8212; Wind energy is expanding quickly in North Dakota.
But there could be a limit to that expansion. And that limit is transmission.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been fortunate so far that the wind industry .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Harnessing the wind not easy</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[While wind gusts of up to 55 mph blew through Bismarck Monday, energy investors and experts discussed the difficulties with harnessing that power and pushing it through transmission lines.
&#8220;If you as a generator want to get into the system, you are indeed in trouble,&#8221;Duane Steed, manager of new generation development for Montana-Dakota Utilities Co., told the roomful of renewable energy professionals.
Steed, Rodney &#8220;Rod&#8221; Scheel with OtterTail Power Co. and David Hadley with Midwest ISO discussed wind transmission issues in the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Official discusses Strasburg wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 09:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>19 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over 100 people turned out for a wind farm development meeting in Strasburg Thursday night to learn about Just Wind’s plans for the area.
Jeffrey L. Metzger, Just Wind’s Chief Manager, of Mound, Minn., reported on the project which could involve 400 wind generators spread across 64,000 acres in southwestern Emmons County (primarily west of Strasburg). Estimated cost of the project is roughly &#36;1 billion based on the &#36;3.7 million cost per turbine. Actual project cost will depend upon many factors, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind project could be expanding</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>17 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[DICKINSON &#8212; A previously announced wind power project in southwestern North Dakota around Gascoyne has grown to possibly include an area near New England and Elgin.
Ryan Segley, project manager for Crownbutte Wind Power LLC, said the company is currently waiting to see if there is enough room on transmission lines in the southwestern part of the state for the energy generated by the wind turbines.
“We’re waiting for the queue process to see if they can get us on the transmission .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm to go up in Rolette, Towner counties</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>15 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new 100- to 200-megawatt wind farm is in the works in Rolette and Towner counties.
The Border Wind Energy Project is being developed by Sequoia Energy, based in Winnipeg. Construction could begin as early as 2009.
If built, the facility located east of Rolla, N.D., in eastern Rolette and northwestern Towner counties could include as many as 90 wind turbines, according to George Youngerman, director of the Rolla Job Development Authority.
“It won’t be the biggest in the state, but if we .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Minnesota Power&#39;s power line adds wind capacity</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 10:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>14 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Minnesota Power on Tuesday announced plans to acquire a direct-current transmission line for about &#36;80 million and use it to transport additional wind-generated electricity from North Dakota to its Northland customers.
The line belongs to Square Butte Electric Cooperative, and Minnesota Power aims to complete its purchase in 2009.
The direct-current line currently transports electricity from the coal-fired Milton R. Young Generating Station in Center, N.D., to Minnesota Power’s distribution network, 465 miles east. But Minnesota Power intends to reduce its reliance .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm set for public hearings</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plans for a 133-turbine wind farm and associated 10 miles of transmission line north of Valley City in Barnes County will be heard by the Public Service Commission at back-to-back hearings May 2 in Valley City.
Ashtabula Wind, a project of Florida Power and Light, needs site authorization to construct the wind farm, which will generate 200 megawatts of electricity.
It also needs authorization for the transmission corridor to build a 230 kv line to hook up to Otter Tail Power.
The company .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind ridge rich in wind</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Basin Electric Power Cooperative plans to tap wind source with more turbines
There’s a wind ridge south of Minot that’s rich in recoverable energy.
Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Bismarck, plans to tap that resource in coming years with 77 turbines spread over  8,000 to 12,000 acres.
The cooperative held a meeting in Minot Thursday to further unveil its plans and take public comment for an ongoing environmental study.
Ron Rebenitsch, manager of member marketing for Basin Electric, said the cooperative studied national wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Basin will build its own wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Basin Electric Power Cooperative will cut out the middleman and go directly to the wind on its own.
The cooperative, long associated with lignite power and gasification plants, has formed a subsidiary to build a 77-turbine wind farm along Highway 83 south of Minot, where it installed two turbines in an earlier project.
Public scoping meetings were held Wednesday and construction is scheduled to start next year. The &#36;240 million wind farm will add 115 megawatts of electricity to Basin&#8217;s power portfolio .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>PSC may dismantle wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>03 Apr 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says the North Dakota Public Service Commission has the authority to regulate the dismantling of wind farms.
The commission is writing rules to govern how wind farms are taken down when they&#8217;re no longer producing electricity.
The agency now determines the location of wind farms if they&#8217;re capable of generating at least 100 megawatts of power. Smaller farms may be built without Public Service Commission approval.
Stenehjem says North Dakota law gives the commission authority to regulate how any .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Things you should know before signing that wind energy lease</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>04 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[FARGO, N.D. &#8212; The number of wind towers and turbines going up in the region has exploded, with over 100 expected to be built within the next few months.
 Practically all of these wind turbines will be going up on private farmland, but farmers need to have basic information in hand before they start negotiating land leases for wind turbines, according to Lynn Hamilton, an expert on wind energy leases from Michigan State University and Cal Poly.
Hamilton told those attending .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>It’s wind farms vs. whoopers</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>02 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are those who don’t like wind farms because of the unsightly tall turbines that are erected. There are those who don’t like wind farms because larger groups of the wind turbines can require new electric transmission lines to be constructed, which also are unsightly and controversial.
The latest strike against wind farms came this past week when the United States Fish and Wildlife Service said wind turbines are the latest serious threat against whooping cranes. Whooping cranes are protected by .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Otter Tail wants to bill ND customers for Langdon wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Otter Tail Power Co. wants to begin charging its North Dakota customers for the expense of building a new wind farm, a request that may be delayed until state regulators can review its electric rates.
The Public Service Commission on Wednesday began considering an Otter Tail request to allow it to add a &#8220;renewable generation&#8221; rate to its North Dakota electric bills.
Otter Tail serves Devils Lake, Wahpeton, Jamestown and a number of other communities in North Dakota, where it has about .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Basin Electric proposing wind energy project</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>28 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Basin Electric Power Cooperative is planning the largest wind farm within its nine-state service territory, a proposed 115-megawatt development south of Minot in northwestern North Dakota.
Basin Electric, which is based in Bismarck, recently notified North Dakota&#8217;s Public Service Commission about the proposal. It includes 77 wind towers and would cost an estimated &#36;240 million to build.
&#8220;It will be one of the largest cooperative-owned wind farms in the country,&#8221; Basin spokesman Daryl Hill said Wednesday.
Basin&#8217;s general manager, Ron Harper, said in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Two energy projects competing for the wind</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[VALLEY CITY &#8212; Two competing wind projects for a high glacial ridge northeast of Valley City found little relief for their differences at a zoning meeting Thursday night.
Florida Power and Light plans to install 80 turbines starting late this spring, cranking out 200 megawatts for an as-yet unnamed purchaser, though Otter Tail Power plans a transmission project there.
These turbines would be the biggest in the industry at 2.5 megawatts and stand 420 high at the blade tip.
A local group under .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of wind stalls snowkites</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>22 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The snowkite is an elusive creature. Twelve meters long, it weaves about in the sky flashing green, red and gold with the word &#8220;ozone&#8221; in black lettering that looks small from the ground.
On Thursday a small crowd of kids eagerly waited by the Horizon Middle School football field for lessons on how to fly a snowkite. It was part of To Cross the Moon Expedition&#8217;s first stop in Bismarck.
2xTM snowkiters are trying to cross the state to promote wind energy.
From .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Giant wind farm planned in N.D.</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>08 Feb 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two partnering firms announced plans Thursday for a sprawling wind farm in northwest North Dakota that would span parts of three counties and double the state’s current wind-energy capacity.
Hartland Wind Farm ultimately would have a capacity of 1,000 megawatts. By comparison, the largest wind complexes now in development would reach 200 megawatts.
The project would encompass parts of Burke, Mountrail and Ward counties along the Missouri plateau 25 miles northwest of Minot. Two companies have formed a joint venture to develop .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind farm application time shrunk</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>31 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[State regulators have agreed to shorten a wind developer&#8217;s waiting time before it may submit plans to build North Dakota&#8217;s largest wind energy project.
FPL Energy wants to build 133 wind turbines in northern Barnes County in eastern North Dakota. The wind project would generate up to 200 megawatts of electricity and cost an estimated &#36;350 million to build.
The company wants North Dakota&#8217;s Public Service Commission to grant a construction permit by May 1, Scott Scovill, an FPL Energy project director, .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Developers eye Luverne for wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>18 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the second time this week, developers have announced plans for a large wind farm north of Valley City, N.D.
But M-Power LLC&#8217;s 150-megawatt Luverne Wind Farm, which could have as many as 100 turbines, is unique.
It will be the first locally owned wind farm, said Public Service Commissioner Susan Wefald. The PSC received notice of the project Thursday.
Its proposed site stretches north and northeast of Luverne, N.D., which is near the Sheyenne River, and covers parts of four townships on .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Barnes County will be home of big wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Move over, Langdon. Your title of biggest wind farm in North Dakota isn’t going to last long.
Barnes County, prepare to don the crown.
A Florida company that has been involved in most wind farms in North Dakota has notified the state that it plans to build a 133-turbine, 200-megawatt wind farm just east of Lake Ashtabula near Valley City.
FPL Energy of Juno Beach, Fla., told the North Dakota Public Service Commission on Monday that it hopes to file a formal application .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting in line to get on line</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Dec 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has endured a long checkout line can feel Tim Simons&#8217;s pain.
Simons, a wind developer of Mandan, is in a line so long it&#8217;ll take two, maybe three years to get to the front of it.
The holdup for Simons is the same for any developer hoping to build any power facility in the region. It&#8217;s putting a crimp in his plans to develop an eagerly awaited wind project in Grant County.
The holdup is a &#8220;queue&#8221; to get an interconnect .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Tower hauler violated permit</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>27 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The driver of a truck hauling a wind tower column that hit the underside of an Interstate 94 overpass near Casselton was fined &#36;100 on Monday for violating his state-issued travel permit, the North Dakota Highway Patrol said.
David Wharton, 37, of Whitehouse, Texas, was supposed to be driving on Cass County 10, which runs parallel to I-94, according to the route designated on his oversize load permit, Highway Patrol Sgt. Troy Hischer said.
Wharton was westbound on I-94 about 9:30 a.m. .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Overpass damage near Casselton caused by wind tower</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[CASSELTON &#8212; A wind tower column from DMI Industries in West Fargo that was being hauled on a semitrailer flatbed clipped the underside of an Interstate 94 overpass just east of this city, damaging it.
No one was hurt, but traffic was disrupted while the mess was cleaned up and no travel was advised on the overpass, the Highway Patrol said.
The impact about 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the westbound lanes scattered chunks of concrete across the road, damaging at least nine .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Governors sign pact to focus on renewable energy</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE — The region&#8217;s governors signed an agreement Thursday to work together to reduce energy consumption, focus more on renewable energy and limit greenhouse gas emissions.
The noon signing was part of a regional summit on energy and climate change hosted by the Midwestern Governors Association.
The office of Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, chairman of the 12-member group, said the Midwest can lead the nation in renewable energy.
&#8220;Our strong manufacturing base and rich agricultural industries, along with the wealth of resources in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine blade shipping takes planning</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The sight of hulking wind turbine blades strapped to oversized semi-trailers has been known to unnerve motorists as the giant blades move through traffic destined for wind farms across the country.
Wind turbine blades manufactured at LM Glasfiber&#8217;s Grand Forks plant range in length from about 120 feet to about 145 feet long and can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds.
“Most people, even some of our customers, don&#8217;t realize how big they are until they see them up close,” said Ralph .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Jamestown area could see more wind farms</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[North Dakota may see the construction of more wind turbines — possibly some in the Jamestown area.
Terry Wanzek, who farms west of Jamestown, said he signed an easement contract with FPL Energy for a possible wind farm on his property.
“We are looking at additional opportunities in the state,” said Steve Stengel, spokesman for FPL Energy, the firm that constructed the wind farm west of Edgeley and is in the process of building a wind farm near Langdon and expanding the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Reclamation of wind farm sites a must</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>07 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[North Dakota has great potential for wind farms. But like every other participant in the wider energy industry that relies on equipment, wind-farm operators have to figure on machinery having a limited useful life span.
Figures differ, but the massive wind turbines have at least 15 years and up to 25 years of usefulness, as shown in Germany, Great Britain and other countries with long-time wind-farming experience.
A lot can happen in 20 years or so. So it&#8217;s extremely wise of the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Rules being drafted to govern wind turbine teardowns</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>05 Nov 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of North Dakota’s wind turbines have barely begun operating, but state regulators have started drafting rules that would apply if the massive towers quit producing electricity.
‘‘My hope is that we never need to use these decommissioning rules,’’ said Susan Wefald, the president of the state Public Service Commission. ‘‘However, if something changes in the industry so that these turbines are no longer needed, I want to have something in place that would take care of them.’’
The proposed rules, scheduled .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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