Minnesota is the ninth windiest state in the country. This great resource combined with the reduced cost of wind power generation over the past several years means that wind power makes a lot of sense for Minnesotans.

SMMPA owns six wind turbines - two 950 kW wind turbines and two 1650 kW wind turbines located in member community Fairmont, as well as two 1650 kW wind turbines located in member community Redwood Falls. SMMPA installed its first two wind turbines in 2003 — four years before the Minnesota Legislature passed the Renewable Energy Standard — and then added four larger turbines in 2004 and 2005. Combined, these turbines generate over 27 million kilowatt-hours of clean, renewable electricity annually from a limitless Minnesota resource - the wind.

While the Agency has been directly involved in wind production since 2003, nearly all of the wind generation now comes from 2 wind farms in southern Minnesota through power purchase agreements with EDF-Renewable Energy (EDF). In 2009 the Agency purchased power generated from the 67 wind turbine 100.5 MW Wapsipinicon Wind Farm located near Dexter, Minnesota. Then at the beginning of 2020, the Agency nearly doubled its wind production when it began taking all 100 megawatts (MW) of additional wind energy from 39 turbines located at Stoneray Wind Project in southwestern Minnesota.

With this addition, the Agency and its Members will meet Minnesota Renewable Energy Standard of 25% of retail energy sales supplied by renewable sources by 2025.