{"id":110988,"date":"2016-11-17T16:33:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=110988"},"modified":"2016-11-17T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:33:44","slug":"otter-tail-power-agrees-to-buy-merricourt-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=110988","title":{"rendered":"Otter Tail Power agrees to buy Merricourt wind farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-71551\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/geronimowindturbine-300x199.png\" alt=\"geronimowindturbine\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/geronimowindturbine-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/geronimowindturbine-263x175.png 263w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/geronimowindturbine.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Merricourt, N.D.\u00a0 (CSi) Otter Tail Power Company \u00a0announces that they have signed agreements to purchase a 150-megawatt wind farm in the Merricourt area, 15 miles south of Edgeley, in Southeastern North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>EDF renewable Energy will design and build the wind farm, costing more than $250 million to construct.\u00a0 \u00a0It \u00a0will generate enough electricity to power more than 65,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>Otter Tail Power Company President Tim Rogelstad says North Dakota has produced some of the best wind resources.<\/p>\n<p>He says, \u201cOur North Dakota service area has some of the best wind resources in the country to produce low-cost energy. And, because of advances in technology, this wind farm will have a high energy output\u2014even by North Dakota standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wind energy now supplies approximately 19 percent of the electricity Otter Tail Power Company uses to serve its customers. With this addition, customers will receive approximately 28 percent of their energy from wind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merricourt, N.D.\u00a0 (CSi) Otter Tail Power Company \u00a0announces that they have signed agreements to purchase a 150-megawatt wind farm in the Merricourt area, 15 miles south of Edgeley, in Southeastern North Dakota. EDF renewable Energy will design and build the wind farm, costing more than $250 million to construct.\u00a0 \u00a0It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110989,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110988\/revisions\/110989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}