Redwood Falls has more than 10 years of wind energy green footprint impact

Redwood Falls is one of many communities that boasts green energy infrastructure improvements. West of town stand two wind turbines that harness the natural and plentiful winds in our region, converting them into usable energy. A wind turbine occupies less than one-half acre of land and only requires wind speeds of about seven miles per hour in order to turn the giant propellers.

Each of the 1,650 kW turbines produces enough renewable electricity to power about 700 homes.

The pair was completed between December 2004 and February 2005; the construction took about four months to complete from the time more than 450 tons of concrete were poured per tower until each was activated.

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