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Speaking of wind farms

DooBi

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Sep 18, 2006
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Does Minnesota not subsidize the wind industry like Iowa does? I drove 4 hours in to Minnesota and as soon as I crossed the border the windmills stopped. Land was the same flat farmland (at least for the first 3 hours). Do they not use wind energy in Minnesota?
 
Does Minnesota not subsidize the wind industry like Iowa does? I drove 4 hours in to Minnesota and as soon as I crossed the border the windmills stopped. Land was the same flat farmland (at least for the first 3 hours). Do they not use wind energy in Minnesota?
Minnesota ranks in the top ten states in the country for percentage of energy generated by wind.
 
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I think there’s some geography that favors putting any wind farms down in the far Southwest corner of the state.

Whereas Iowa, it’s anywhere with dirt and a willing deed holder
 
Does Minnesota not subsidize the wind industry like Iowa does? I drove 4 hours in to Minnesota and as soon as I crossed the border the windmills stopped. Land was the same flat farmland (at least for the first 3 hours). Do they not use wind energy in Minnesota?
Maybe the highest wind density areas are in the northern half of Minn. I have seen the Iowa wind density map some years ago and the density is highest in the NW quarter of the state and the lowest is in the SE so the power and density decrease in that direction. Lot's of wind farms in Iowa from central Iowa up to the NW
 
That makes sense. Driving from NW Iowa through SW Minnesota. I don't think we saw one single wind farm in Minnesota up to Big Stone lake. I could be wrong, I didn't pay that close attention.
 
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