Geronimo Energy moving ahead with plans for wind farm in southwest Minnesota

If all goes as planned the landscape of southwest Redwood County could look quite a bit different in a couple of years.

By that time, a project known as Plum Creek Wind Farm could be up and running.

Jordan Burmeister of Geronimo Energy, who is serving as project manger for the proposed Plum Creek Wind Farm project, was in Redwood Falls recently to talk with members of the Redwood County board about the project and its status. The proposed project is being planned for development on land in three different counties, including Redwood, Murray and Cottonwood in the Walnut Grove and Westbrook area.

The plan is to have up to 400 megawatts of electricity generated when all of the turbines are up and running.

According to Burmeister, the number of wind towers that would be erected in the proposed area, that would be on land in North Hero and Lamberton townships in Redwood County, is dependent on the size of the towers themselves.

If, for example, each tower can generate two megawatts that would require 200 towers, while four megawatt towers would mean there would be 100 of them.

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