ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of ALLETE, is in the middle of its biggest wind energy construction year as it celebrates this week’s American Wind Week. ALLETE Clean Energy is poised to nearly double its carbon-free wind capacity to more than 1,000 MW with three new wind farms under construction in 2019 and…
ALLETE makes deal with Smithfield Food for Oklahoma wind power
ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of ALLETE, announced a power sales agreement with Smithfield Foods, Inc. for the remaining output of the Diamond Spring wind site ALLETE Clean Energy will build, own and operate in Oklahoma. The Smithfield agreement follows an earlier announcement of power sale agreements with two large Fortune 500 companies: Walmart…
ALLETE buys Apex’s Diamond Spring Wind project in Oklahoma
Apex Clean Energy announced the sale of Diamond Spring Wind to ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of ALLETE. The transaction includes 15-year power purchase agreements that Apex negotiated with two Fortune 500 companies (to be announced at a later date). The success of Diamond Spring Wind, a 303-MW project located in Oklahoma’s Johnston…
ALLETE repowering two of its U.S. wind farms
ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of ALLETE, has received the 45th set of new wind-turbine blades from international blade manufacturer Tecsis. The blades are for ALLETE’s refurbishment initiative at its Storm Lake and Lake Benton wind facilities in Iowa and Minnesota, respectively. In August 2017, the company announced an $80 million project that…
ALLETE Clean Energy plans to refurbish its 50-MW Oregon wind farm
ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of ALLETE, announced it is refurbishing its 50-MW Condon Wind facility in Oregon, with the project completion scheduled for 2019. The refurbishment will extend the operating life of the facility, sustain its operating availability and requalify the site for federal production tax credits. The project also will position…
ALLETE Clean Energy sells second phase of 155-MW Thunder Spirit wind project
ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ALLETE, today closed an approximately $84 million sale of the 48-MW phase two of the Thunder Spirit wind facility in North Dakota to Montana-Dakota Utilities. Montana-Dakota Utilities, a division of MDU Resources Group, which owns and operates Thunder Spirit’s first phase also built by ALLETE Clean Energy, exercised…
ALLETE sells phase II of Thunder Spirit wind farm to Montana-Dakota Utilities
ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ALLETE Inc., announced its plan to sell the 48-MW phase two of the Thunder Spirit wind farm near Hettinger, North Dakota to Montana-Dakota Utilities (MDU). The approximately $85 million sale is expected to close when ALLETE Clean Energy’s development of the site, scheduled to begin in May 2018,…