ALLETE Clean Energy starts operation of 106 MW wind project in North Dakota

ALLETE Clean Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ALLETE, has completed the development of its Glen Ullin Energy Center located about 40 miles west of Bismarck, North Dakota. The wind project produces producing wind power for Xcel Energy customers in the Upper Midwest.

Glen Ullin Energy Center, a 106-megawatt wind facility, produces enough electricity to power about 55,650 homes from its 43 2.3- and 2.5-megawatt General Electric turbines. It will employ about 10 people during the operation, and provide property tax and other business benefits to area communities and lease payments to landowners. 

Glen Ullin Energy Center is the third North Dakota wind expansion project developed and built by ALLETE Clean Energy, and the first it will own and operate. It also developed the 107.5-megawatt Thunder Spirit wind farm near Hettinger and sold it to Montana-Dakota Utilities in 2015. ALLETE Clean Energy expanded Thunder Spirit to about 155 megawatts and sold the expansion to MDU in 2018. 

ALLETE Inc. is an energy company headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota. In addition to its electric utilities, Minnesota Power and Superior Water, Light and Power of Wisconsin, ALLETE owns ALLETE Clean Energy, based in Duluth; BNI Energy in Bismarck, North Dakota; and has an 8 percent equity interest in the American Transmission Co.