Minnesota is one of the leading wind-power states.
Rank: Third in share of power from wind (9.7 percent), behind Iowa and North Dakota.
Capacity: 2,518 megawatts, equivalent to power used by 700,000 homes. Ranked fourth (Texas, Iowa, California).
Industry players
Xcel Energy, based in Minneapolis, has the most wind-power capacity of any investor-owned U.S. utility.
Great River Energy, based in Maple Grove, has the second-largest wind portfolio among rural electric cooperatives.
EnXco, the U.S. renewable energy unit of Paris-based EDF Energies Nouvelles Co., has built nine wind farms in Minnesota. Its Midwest office is in Minneapolis.
Source: American Wind Energy Association Annual Market Report
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