From: tgray@igc.apc.org (Tom Gray)
Newsgroups: sci.energy
Subject: --Redesigned Turbines Sell Well
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:47:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!tgray    Dec 21 12:47:00 1992


/* Written 12:44 pm  Dec 21, 1992 by tgray@igc.apc.org in igc:en.energy */
MINNESOTA WINDPOWER
SEES BRISK SALES
 
Minnesota Windpower is now building one of its 35-kW turbines per
week, according to company founder Dan Juhl.  Fifteen of the
redesigned Century turbines are now operating in southwestern
Minnesota. They join five Danish Wind World turbines recently
dedicated by Governor Arne Carlson that were also erected by
Minnesota Windpower.
 
Construction is nearly complete on the company's new building in 
Marshall, Minn., Juhl said, adding that he hopes to begin
assembling not only the 35-kW turbine in the new structure, but
also Wind World turbines to meet contracts for new capacity from
Midwestern utilities.
 
Juhl expects to bid on a 5-MW contract with Northern States Power 
for installation by September 1993.  He's also expecting to close 
a deal with Iowa Electric of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for 15 MW of 
effective capacity.  To activate the contract, Juhl said, he will 
install 10 Danish WindMatic 15S turbines currently in California. 
After installation of the WindMatics, Minnesota Windpower will
begin assembling Wind World 250-kW turbines to build out the
remainder of the contract, Juhl said.
 
Though the integral drive train for the Wind World 26-meter (85-
foot) machine will continue to be built in Denmark, Juhl plans to
mount U.S.-built generators on the turbine in Marshall.  Minnesota 
Windpower will use Zond's controller and also plans to source the
40-meter (131-foot) tubular towers in the U.S. 
 
Minnesota Windpower expects to install two of the Wind World 
turbines this year for at a consolidated school in Spirit Lake, 
Iowa.  Spirit Lake is the southernmost extension of Buffalo Ridge,
a physiographic feature that has attracted international attention
for its high winds (see "Minnesota Continues to Document Wind
Potential," Wind Energy Weekly #436, February 18, 1991, p. 5).
 
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