Powering with Wind
MRES and our member communities are uniquely situated to take advantage of wind because of our geographical location. In a few short years, we've gone from no wind resources to an energy portfolio with over 82 MW dedicated to clean, renewable wind power. In fact, about 4% of the energy we supply to our members will be derived from non-hydroelectric renewable resources.
MRES currently has four wind projects in its renewable energy portfolio. We built our first wind farm in 2002 near Worthington, Minnesota. In 2007, we signed an agreement with wind developers to purchase the output from an 18.9-MW wind project near Marshall, Minnesota, and a 21-MW project near Odin, Minnesota. We eventually purchased the Marshall Wind Farm in April 2020.
MRES also contracts for 40 MW of capacity from the Rugby Wind Project, a large wind farm located near Rugby, North Dakota.