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05/25/2010 - Outland Renewable Energy Awarded Contract to Deliver O&M Services for Minwind’s Vestas and NEG Micon Turbines

CANBY, MN – May 25, 2010 – Minwind Energy, LLC (Minwind) has awarded Outland Renewable Energy (Outland) a two-year contract to provide post-warranty operations and maintenance services for Minwind’s Vestas and NEG-Micon turbines in southwest Minnesota. Specifically, Outland will perform all scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on Minwind’s seven Vestas V82 1.65 MW turbines and four NEG-Micon 950 kW turbines beginning on June 1, 2010.

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05/25/2010 - Outland Renewable Energy Awarded Wind Farm O&M Contract by Xcel Energy

CANBY, MN – May 25, 2010 – Xcel Energy has awarded Outland Renewable Energy a three-year contract to provide operations and maintenance services at Xcel Energy’s 100-megawatt Grand Meadow wind farm in Mower County, Minnesota. The wind farm, developed for Xcel Energy by enXco Development Corp., began commercial operation in December, 2008.

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03/31/2010 - Outland Becomes First U.S. Based Wind Industry O&M Firm to Achieve ISO 9001:2008 Quality Certification

CANBY, MN – April 1, 2010 – Outland Renewable Energy (Outland), a recognized leader in the wind energy services sector, announced today that it has achieved ISO 9001:2008 certification, becoming the first U.S.-based wind energy operations and maintenance (O&M) company to do so. Founded in 2005, today Outland has more than 100 wind turbine technicians.

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03/08/2010 - Outland Now Offers Mobile Oil Exchange Services Designed to Improve Gearbox Maintenance

Outland’s new Mobile Oil Exchange System is specifically designed to improve turbine gearbox maintenance by using a patented system to evacuate and refill gearboxes. The fully-enclosed process cleans to ISO standards, eliminates the lifting of heavy buckets, reduces mess and spills and is environmentally friendly.

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11/09/2009 - Outland Contracts With Gamesa

Outland Renewable Energy (Outland) announced it has been awarded a major contract as a prime vendor of maintenance services for Gamesa, one of the leading wind turbine manufacturers in the world. Outland’s field service division provides oversight and management of wind power facilities through a complete lifecycle.

The contract provides for the operations and maintenance at the 300 Megawatt Cayuga Ridge wind farm located in rural Livingston County, Illinois.

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09/18/2009 - Outland Receives Grants

Outland Renewable Energy has been named the recipient of three grants totaling $104,000 from the Renewable Energy Marketplace – Alliance for Talent Development (MNREM).

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09/08/2009 - Hansen Partners with Outland

Outland Renewable Energy and Hansen Transmissions International announced this week in a meeting at Hansen manufacturing headquarters in Lommel, Belgium that Outland has been selected to be an authorized on-site service provider in North America for Hansen Service Wind.

Outland will form a dedicated team of wind technicians to provide on-site service support for the nearly 6,000 Hansen wind turbine gearboxes located on wind energy farms throughout North America.

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02/13/2009 - Outland Recognizes Rice For Safety Leadership

Outland announced today that field service technician Alex Rice has been recognized as the company’s 2008 Safety Champion. Rice joined Outland in August of 2008, and provides maintenance support the 20 MW ‘Winnebago’ wind power facility located north of Mason City, Iowa.

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12/18/2008 - Outland Promotes Scott To President

CANBY, Minn. (December 18, 2008) Outland Renewable Energy, LLC (Outland) announced today that it has named current COO Steve Scott as its president.

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11/02/2008 - Outland Signs Service Agreement with Gamesa

CANBY, Minn. – Minnesota based, Outland Renewable Energy, LLC (Outland) announced today the completion of contract negotiations with Gamesa Wind US (GWUS) to provide certain wind turbine maintenance services to GWUS. The multi-year agreement covers four wind facilities located in the Midwest with total installed capacity of 332 megawatts.

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