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Power Supply <br /> V VDA is comnittcc to <br /> provicing our nombcrs with <br /> ccan roewaoo onergy <br /> MMPA is expanding its portfolio of renewable resources (wind, solar, and <br /> biomass). These resources support meeting the Minnesota Renewable <br /> Energy Standard (RES) and our members' customers' demand for renewable <br /> energy. The RES requires 25% of the Agency's energy to come from <br /> renewable sources by 2025. <br /> Hometown WindPower Hometown BioEnergy <br /> In 2010, MMPA placed a 160 kW wind turbine MMPA's Hometown BioEnergy (HTBE) facility <br /> in each member community, as well as at its was recognized by the American Biogas <br /> Faribault Energy Park facility. This innovative Council as the "Municipal Biogas Project of <br /> Hometown WindPower program made MMPA the Year" in 2015. The 8 MW biomass facility, <br /> the first municipal power agency in the country located in the MMPA member community of <br /> to have a wind turbine in each member Le Sueur, provides local, dispatchable, on-peak, <br /> community. These turbines are a resource to renewable energy for the Agency. <br /> help community members learn about the <br /> HTBE uses anaerobic digestion technology <br /> benefits and operating characteristics of wind <br /> to produce biogas from agricultural and <br /> power, while also demonstrating the Agency's <br /> food processing wastes from a number of <br /> commitment to renewable energy. <br /> local sources, including 4 MMPA member <br /> Oak Glen Wind Farm communities. The biogas serves as fuel for <br /> Oak Glen Wind Farm (OGWF) is a 44 MW the reciprocating engines, which produce <br /> wind project located near Blooming Prairie, electricity. Unique compared to other forms <br /> Minnesota. The project is composed of 24 of renewable generation, the plant has <br /> turbines that produce renewable energy for significant gas storage, allowing the Agency <br /> the Agency. The wind farm is projected to to generate electricity during on-peak hours <br /> produce approximately 150,000 MWh of when electricity generation is more valuable. <br /> renewable energy annually. OGWF entered The facility also creates valuable by-products, <br /> service in 2011 and has consistently performed including a liquid by-product used for fertilizer <br /> at a high level of reliability. by local farmers. <br /> 2015 MMPA Annual Report 11 <br />