The Minnesota Department of Commerce Office of Energy Security (OES) requests proposals from Minnesota school districts and local governments for the Local Government Renewable Energy Grant Program funded by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 and authorized by Laws of Minnesota 2009, Chapter 138, Article 3, Section 5.

With the start-up of two 100-kilowatt (kW) wind turbines, the Village of Cascade became the first Wisconsin community to power its municipal wastewater treatment plant with 100 percent locally produced wind energy.

Wind energy projects developed by small political subdivisions of cities and townships, rural electrification cooperatives, and other municipal or quasi-municipal entities or municipally owned corporations that provide electric transmission, distribution or generation services.

Western Community Energy, LLC (WCE) develops community scale renewable energy projects, chiefly wind energy projects, for private landowners, cities, counties, schools, municipal/public utility districts, tribes, and small businesses.

TiE Boston and the CleanTech SIG once again present the unusual but very popular SIG Field Trip event- A tour of the Hull Wind turbine, featuring catered lunch on a YACHT as we sail to Hull!

The Wind Powering America program has a web page of resources for public power authorities.

Click here to go to the site.

A utility owned by a city to supply utility services to residents in that city. Generally, surpluses in revenues or over-expenditures are contributed to the city budget.

Missouri River Energy Services put up four turbines near Worthington, MN. 

Read more about the RiverWinds project in Worthington, MN by clicking here.

Midwest Municipal Utility is a Wind Power Pioneer

Moorhead Public Service in Moorhead, MN has put up two utility-scale turbines, named Zephyr and Freedom.

Read more about the Capture the Wind project on the Moorhead Public Service web site.