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10/20/2008 - Outland Establishes National Training Center

CANBY, Minn. – Outland Renewable Energy, LLC (Outland) announced today that it has established a national training center where all wind turbine technician safety and technical training will be administered. A five year facilities use agreement with Minneapolis based Wind Energy America gives Outland exclusive access to two Gamesa G52 850kW turbines and shop space located at the Midwest Center for Wind Energy (MCWE) which is 25 miles from Outland’s Canby operations office.

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09/22/2008 - Wind Energy America, Inc. Signs Services Agreement with Outland Renewable Energy, LLC

Minneapolis—(Business Wire)—Wind Energy America Inc. (OTCBB: WNEA – News) announced today that Outland Renewable Energy LLC (Outland) has signed a services agreement for four newly acquired Gamesa wind turbines in Minnesota and Iowa. These wind turbines represent 5.7 megawatts of new wind capacity for WNEA.

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09/19/2008 - Outland Adds Two More to Canby Staff

CANBY, Minn. – Outland Renewable Energy, LLC (Outland) announced today the addition of two more individuals to the company’s Canby, Minnesota staff.

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06/19/2008 - Taylor Vandeputte Wins Outland Poster Contest

CANBY, Minn. – Minnesota-based, Outland Renewable Energy, LLC (Outland) announced today that Taylor Vandeputte, has won their annual poster contest. The theme of this years contest was My Future Energy . Taylor’s winning poster features a farmer harvesting a field of corn and a wind turbine harvesting the wind.

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04/20/2008 - Their Own Private Power Line

Twin Cities Business Magazine
MINNEAPOLIS – “If you try to connect to the grid in Minnesota today in the Buffalo Ridge, MISO [the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator; the organization that controls the region's power grid] is not even going to study your interconnection-do a system impact study- until 2017.That’s what they quoted last fall,” says Ingrid Bjorklund, vice president of government affairs for Chaska-based Outland Renewable Energy.

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04/18/2008 - Harding Joins Outland

CANBY – Outland Renewable Energy, LLC (Outland) announced today the addition of Jeff Harding to the position of operations coordinator for the company’s rapidly growing field service division.

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04/17/2008 - Ascending The Heights

Sioux Falls Argus Leader
CANBY – Kevin Froslan and Jacob Knutson don’t aspire to ascend the Alps. Froslan, in fact, once dreaded climbing the 60-foot silo on his parents’ southwestern Minnesota farm. “I used to be scared to climb on my own roof,” he says. But now the two 20-year-olds have climbed the Pyrenees of the plains, those lazily-spinning wind turbines you see in a distance while driving highways and interstate.

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03/26/2008 - Allco Renewable Energy to Develop $45,000,000 Solar Project in Rhode Island

NEW YORK – Allco Renewable Energy, a major Outland shareholder, has signed a letter of intent to develop a $45,000,000, 8 MW solar energy facility in Coventry, Rhode Island on the site of a former hog farm that had been declared a federal “Superfund” site.

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03/19/2008 - Outland Names Hach As Director Of Land Acquisition

CHASKA – Outland Renewable Energy (Outland) announced the appointment of Ben Hach as the director of land acquisition. Hach will report to Dan Rustowicz, chief development officer, and will oversee all aspects of land acquisition and management related to wind farm development.

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01/28/2008 - Wind energy official sees a chance to have impact

- By Robert Wolfington III – Marshall Independent CANBY – Jeremy Krug travels across the country with one goal — utilizing the power of wind. Krug works as the director of operations for Outland Renewable Energy in its Canby office, but spends a lot of time at wind turbine sites around the country.

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