Minnesota Power Buys Power Line for Wind Energy. By Carissa Wyant, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal, May 14, 2008. "Minnesota Power will shift spending away from coal-based electricity to wind power and buy an $80 million transmission line as part of an effort to use more renewable energy, the company said Tuesday. The company has plans to buy a power line owned by Square Butte Electric Cooperative, for approximately $80 million in early 2009. That line would link Minnesota Power's current network with the windy North Dakota plains, but it's currently used to deliver electricity from a coal plant in Center, N.D. The company also detailed that it plans to phase out a long-term contract to buy coal-based electricity from that plant. In addition, Minnesota Power said it will add several hundred megawatts of wind generation near Center."
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