Indiana feels the power of Minnesota's wind (Midwest wind power export)

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http://www.startribune.com/business/134147393.html

The people in Lakefield, a small farming community in southwest Minnesota, can look across the prairie in three directions and see fields of wind turbines.

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The wind farm, commissioned last month, is the first in Minnesota built solely for export.

Across the nation, utilities are looking far afield for wind power, often to satisfy clean energy goals. The practice, which began on the East and West coasts, is becoming common in the Upper Midwest, which some experts believe is poised to become a major exporter of wind power.

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Some of the most far-ranging of the new wind power deals are in North Dakota, where two wind farms have agreed to sell electricity to the Tennessee Valley Authority, the federally owned power supplier in the Southeast.

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