SD group studies plan to sell wind power to MN

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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The newly formed South Dakota Wind Energy Association has commissioned a study to assess a plan for selling wind-generated electricity to Minnesota.

At the association's first membership meeting Tuesday, Board President Jeff Nelson said the organization is looking at developing 1,000 megawatts of wind power that would probably be sold to customers in Minnesota. The association hopes that project would be followed by additional development to sell wind energy to other states.

Nelson says peak demand for all of South Dakota is just 3,000 megawatts an hour, so South Dakota needs to find ways to sell wind energy to other states. That would require additional transmission lines.

Wind farms in South Dakota now produce about 300 megawatts of power.

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