Wind Energy America, Inc. Signs Services Agreement with Outland Renewable Energy, LLC
Tuesday September 23, 12:48 pm ET
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wind Energy America Inc. (OTCBB: WNEA - News) announced today that Outland Renewable Energy LLC (Outland) has signed a services agreement for four newly acquired Gamesa wind turbines in Minnesota and Iowa. These wind turbines represent 5.7 megawatts of new wind capacity for WNEA.
It is expected that Outland will work alongside Gamesa, who has a similar arrangement with WNEA for its wind turbines in Iowa. “We are pleased to be contracting with Outland for these services,” said Bob Knutson, managing director for WNEA. “Outland is known for the quality of the services they provide and for maintaining an extremely safe work environment. We expect this to be the beginning of a close working relationship involving WNEA projects across the upper Midwest.”
Outland’s Chief Operating Officer, Steve Scott, said, “We’re excited to support WNEA in the commissioning and on-going operations and maintenance of these turbines. We know the technology quite well and they’re right here in our own back yard. It’s a good fit for both companies.”
About Outland Renewable Energy LLC
Outland Renewable Energy is a leader in the development, construction and maintenance of wind facilities in the United States. With more than 100 full time employees in the US, the Company maintains their development office in Chaska, Minnesota and manages all operations from Canby, Minnesota. For more information, visit www.outlandenergy.com.
About Wind Energy America, Inc.
WNEA assets include interests and development rights in many projects in the upper Midwest, including certain wind turbine equipment, and other assets related to wind farms in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and southern Ontario. As a wind farm developer, WNEA controls significant interests and rights to an extensive pipeline of wind energy projects under development. The WNEA pipeline now includes approximately 1,300 megawatts in initial and various phases of design or development, 400 of which are located southwestern Minnesota, in some of the most favorable wind regimes in North America for the generation of electricity from wind turbines.
Wind Energy America, Inc. holds and is continuing to acquire significant ownership interests in wind farms in the Midwest and upper Great Plains regions of North America. These regions are particularly suitable for wind energy since they feature sparsely populated and extensive flat prairies having both high and consistent wind speeds. Moreover, farmers and other rural citizens there welcome the substantial and profitable additional “crop” of wind farming and related “green collar” jobs.
This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding WNEA and its future business plans, which statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties may cause actual results and future achievements of WNEA to be materially different than those implied by these forward-looking statements. WNEA has and undertakes no obligation to provide public updates and revisions to these forward- looking statements to reflect any changes in its expectations of future events.