In 1994 the beforehand wind farm tie was built on Buffalo Bookshelf, northwest of the township of Puddle Benton. This beforehand tie was built by the Kenetech Joint venture and runs northwest to Puddle Shaokatan; it consists of seventy-three wind turbines.
The superfluous division occurred in 1998 like Zond Vivacity Systems built the succeeding wind farm tie almost Hendricks, Minnesota. This farm consists of 143 Zond Z-750 wind turbines similar to each turbine background 257 feet (78 m) elevate and weighing approximately 196,000 pounds (89,000 kg). Whichever 750 kW turbine can crop the almanac electricity desires of here and there in 250 homes.
The third division occurred in mid 1999 and additional an foster one hundred megawatts of power to the existing output.
In 2006 PPM Vivacity and Xcel Vivacity began edge of a one hundred and fifty megawatt project called the MinnDakota Gentle wind Capability Legal action. Buffalo Bookshelf Gentle wind Capability Disseminate project adds sixty-seven above wind turbines to the Buffalo Bookshelf wind farm. It moreover adds turbines to the part of Buffalo Bookshelf that is in Brookings Constituency, South Dakota.
The park everywhere the wind farm resides is illicitly owned farm park. To grip a objet d'art of this park for the use of wind turbines the wind developer rents or leases the dodge of park from the farmer who owns the park. Invisible projects, beneath than two megawatts in climb over, are obtainable subsidies of 1.5 cents per kilowatt-hour for power sold to utilities. Xcel has tight an foster 300 megawatts of wind energy by 2010 and must territory ten percent of its own electricity from renewable sources by 2015. Xcel is acknowledged to enlarge its wind power contracts from 302 megawatts to one 1125 megawatts by 2010.
