Media Advisory: Photo/story opportunities for news media at southern Minnesota energy tour
WHO: Great River Energy, a generation and transmission cooperative headquartered in Maple Grove, Minn., and its 28 electric cooperative members.
WHAT: Journalists and photo crews are invited to tour and photograph a wind farm and natural gas-fueled peaking facility. Take a first-hand look at the wind turbines and plant while nearly 200 electric cooperative members from across the state of Minnesota tour the site throughout the day. The 100-megawatt (MW) Prairie Star Wind Farm in Mower County, Minn., generates enough electricity to power approximately 30,000 Minnesota homes. The wind farm consists of 61 1.65-MW wind turbines. Pleasant Valley Station generates more than 400 MW of power for times of peak energy use.
WHEN: Wednesday, September 16
9:00 a.m.: Welcoming event
9:30 a.m.: Pleasant Valley Station presentation/complimentary meal
10:15 p.m.: Tour Pleasant Valley Station peaking facility
11:00 a.m.: Travel to Prairie Star Wind Farm
11:30 a.m.: Wind energy presentation
Noon: Tour Prairie Star Wind Farm
1:00 p.m.: End time
WHERE: Dexter, Minn.
Great River Energy’s Pleasant Valley Station
68435 310th Street
Dexter, MN 55926
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For more information:
Dan Becchetti
Communications Coordinator
763-445-5706 (office)
763-442-5987 (mobile)
