Right!  Minnesota has the potential for 75,000 MW of wind electric power output (average), yielding 657 Million MWh of power annually, so we're only at about 1.3% of our possible wind utilization.  In 2002, total electrical consumption in Minnesota was a little over 62 Million MWh.  Compared with 657 Million MWh annual potential, it's clear that wind power could provide a large part of Minnesota's electrical power needs.   In the U.S., Minnesota is currently fourth in wind power generation, behind California, Texas and Iowa, and we rank 9th in ultimate wind power potential.  One megawatt of wind capacity is enough to supply 240 to 300 average American homes. Thus, the 2,096 MW installed in California is enough to supply 500,000 to 620,000 average households.  We have a long way to go in building wind powered electrical capacity -- in 2005, Minnesota generated about 1.7 MWh of electricity from wind, a little less than 3% of our total consumption.    Of course, there are reasons why we can't rely on wind for all of our electrical power needs, most prominently the fact that the wind doesn't always blow.  But the rising cost of energy (and the rising cost of environmental damage from fossil fuel combustion) should be pushing us to expand wind power as part of the mix of sources for our electrical generation.   Wind power is eligible for the same kinds of financial incentives that solar power is.  Some of the websites mentioned in Question #2 are also relevant to wind power.  A good place to start is the Minnesota Department of Commerce website for Energy Information.  Click here to visit the website.
	Information about wind power potential in Minnesota from American Wind Energy Association:  http://www.awea.org/projects/minnesota.html Information about actual wind power generation in Minnesota in 2005 from a paper by the Center for Rural Policy and Development, "Minnesota's Commercial Alternative Energy Industries, Production, Policies and Local Economies", Brendan Jordan and Steven J. Taff, Ph.D., authors.   Click here to read the paper.
	Minnesota electrical consumption for 2002 from Energy Information Administration, an office of the U.S. Department of Energy, State Electricity Profiles (Minnesota), 2002 Summary Statistics, Table 1: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/minnesota.pdf