Clean Energy Policy
The Facts on Wind: A Proven Economic Development Tool, a fact sheet, 751kb pdf (2003)
Renewable Energy: Benefiting Minnesota's Economy Long Term, a fact sheet, 1.68mb pdf (2003)
The Public Health Benefits of Converting the Riverside Coal Plant to Natural Gas, 63kb pdf (2002)
Plugging into Green Power: 1999, 2.11mb pdf. This can take up to 10 minutes to download - click here to e-mail us for a zipped copy.
Clean Energy Resource Teams
CERTs Case Studies
CERTs Statewide Summary, 501kb pdf (2005)
MN Energy Systems, 526kb pdf (2004)
Clean Energy Resource Team manual, 5.79mb pdf. This can take up to 10 minutes to download - click here to e-mail us for a zipped copy. (2003)
Community Wind
Companion Document to Model Wind Ordinance, 441kb pdf (2006)
Model Wind Ordinance, 55kb pdf (2006)
C-BED factsheet, 101kb pdf (2005)
Locally-Owned Wind Energy Feasibility Project, May 1997, 84kb pdf (1997)
Harvesting the Wind: An Assessment of Farmer Interest in Wind Energy for Economic Development — 1995, 554kb pdf (1995)
Community Wind Case Studies
Grand Portage Reservation Plans Wind Project (Dec 2005), 118kb pdf
Independently-owned Small Scale Wind in Kerkhoven Powers a Farm (Dec 2005), 108kb pdf
Carleton College’s Wind Turbine (Nov 2005), 199kb pdf
Proctor Public Schools: Using Wind Power for Real Hands-on Education (Oct 2005), 108kb pdf
Wind Turbines Popping Up in Northfield (Feb 2005), 77kb pdf
West Central Research and Outreach Center: Developing a Renewable Energy Center in Morris (Feb 2005), 192kb pdf
Wind Power in Worthington (Feb 2005), 141kb pdf
Pope County Windpower’s 35kW Wind Turbine (July 2004), 157kb pdf
Wind on the Iron Range (March 2004), 113kb pdf
Wind Energy in Maynard and Clara City (March 2004), 98kb pdf
The Urban Wind Turbine at Macalester College (March 2004), 111kb pdf
Moorhead’s Capture the Wind Success Story (March 2004), 188kb pdf
Lac Qui Parle Valley School (July 2003): Wind and Schools Combine, 124kb pdf
Minnwind I and II (July 2003): Innovative Farmer-Owned Wind Projects, 153kb pdf
Pipestone-Jasper School District: Wind Energy and Education (July 2003), 115kb pdf
Biogas/Methane Digesters
Final Report: Haubenschild Farms Anaerobic Digester Updated 707KB pdf, 2002. Assessment of a biogas digester installed on a Minnesota dairy farm in 1999. Gas - 2002 63kb pdf. Produced for the City of Minneapolis.
Alternative generation project fact sheet, 163kb pdf
Anaerobic Digester Systems for Mid-Sized Dairy Farms, (2005) 740kb pdf.
Economics Fact Sheet, 37kb pdf. Learn the basics of digester economics.
Agriculture & Energy
Locally-Owned Ag Energy: An American Energy Solution – Midwest Ag Energy Network, 844kb pdf, July 2007
Farming and Soil Carbon: A Partial Solution to the Global Warming Problem, 821kb pdf, October 2005
Renewable Energy from Farms: Building on the Principles of Sustainable Agriculture to Achieve Sustainable Energy, 111kb pdf, 2002. Report of the Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (MSAWG).
Other Publications
Fuel cell basics fact sheet, 96kb pdf
Community Aggregation In Greater Minnesota Under A Restructured Electric System 2000, 130kb pdf
SEED Brief: Deregulation of the Electric Industry in Minnesota
by Lola Schoenrich Originally published in Minnesota Project's Community Connections newsletter, Fall 1996. Are you ready for another industry de-regulation?
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