Here is an excerpt from ALLETE Clean Energy's President Al Rudeck (and Board Member, Association of Edison Illuminating Companies):
"The Northern Wind Repower Project in southwest Minnesota capitalizes on advances in materials science with new wind turbines that are taller with longer wingspans, larger wind-swept rotors that capture more wind energy and convert it to electricity...
The Repower Project will increase energy production by about thirty percent, reduce the turbine count by forty percent and reinvest hundreds of millions of dollars in Murray County...
Felling the [old] turbines is a sight to see, similar to how a lumberjack fells a tall white pine."