About NMPP Energy
  NMPP Energy is a joint action agency headquartered in Lincoln, Neb., composed of six entities: Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN), a wholesale electricity supply organization; National Public Gas Agency (NPGA), a wholesale natural gas supplier; Public Alliance for Community Energy (ACE), a retail natural gas supplier; Nebraska Municipal Power Pool (NMPP), a utility-related services provider; Essent Services, Inc., a provider of telecommunications-related services.
  Established in 1975, NMPP Energy serves more than 190 member communities and one public power district in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, Iowa, North Dakota and Wisconsin.

About MEAN
  Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN) is the wholesale electricity supply organization for NMPP Energy. Established in 1981 under the Municipal Cooperative Financing Act, MEAN provides wholesale power supply, energy transmission and related energy services to more than 60 member communities and one public power district in Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas and Wyoming.
  MEAN also provides power-supply planning, dispatch service, load management services, community development, a scholarship program, commercial and industrial audits and a retail energy-assistance program.

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MEAN projects and interests
  Power supply
  MEAN continues to investigate other power supply resource options to serve the growing needs of its member communities. Some of these options include:

  • The Gerald T. Whelan Energy Center (WEC) Unit II an expansion of the 77-megawatt, coal-fired WEC Unit I in Hastings, Neb. MEAN formed a joint coalition with seven public power partners in Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming, including Hastings Utilities, for the 220-MW project.
  • Investment in 7 megawatts of a wind farm developed by Nebraska Public Power District near Ainsworth, Neb.
  • The purchase of 6.67 percent (approximately 53 megawatts) of undivided ownership in the Council Bluffs Energy Center Unit 4, known as CB 4. MEAN is a joint owner of the 790-megawatt, coal-fired steam-generation unit in Council Bluffs, Iowa. In November 2003, the board of directors unanimously approved the issuance of $100 million in Power Supply System Revenue Bonds for CB 4, representing the largest bond issuance in MEAN's history.
  • MEAN and seven power supply entities in the Rocky Mountains have studied the feasibility of a nominal 1500-megawatt, coal-fired generation project in Colorado.


Transmission
  MEAN continues to monitor the development of a Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) in the nation's upper Midwest. The Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO) filed its proposed Energy Markets Tariff (EMT) in 2004. The proposed tariff is based on a pricing model defined as Locational Marginal Pricing. MEAN is not a MISO member and none of MEAN's transmission providers in Nebraska are members of MISO; however, the EMT could have a significant impact on the market area in which MEAN operates.
  RTO development in the western region of the United States has been almost nonexistent. The slow progress towards RTO development in this area has not adversely affected MEAN's transmission rights or delivery obligations to its members in western Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming.
  MEAN is an active member in Mid-Continent Area Power Pool and serves on various committees, including the Regional Transmission Committee. Participation in this organization helps ensure that MEAN stays abreast of the proposed EMT and meets its delivery obligations to its members.

Member services
  MEAN also provides utility and energy related services to members, including business software support, energy audits, key customer assistance, community development assistance and cost-of-service/rate design studies.

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Richard Duxbury, former executive director, NMPP Energy
  Welcome to the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN) Web site for the Wind Project in Kimball, Neb.
  As an organization, we are driven to provide economical energy for our members and to be ever conscious of environmental concerns. This is the basis on which we entered into this project. This project is a great benefit to the environment and cost-effective means of alternative energy for our members.
  With this wind project, MEAN will continue to be a leader in the energy field.

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William Y. Leung, chief operating officer, MEAN
  On behalf of the members of the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN), thank you for visiting this Web site to learn more about the MEAN Wind Project at Kimball.
  Renewable energy is very important to our member communities. MEAN is proud to provide a portion of our members’ total energy requirements with wind generated from the Wind Project at Kimball and other regional wind farms.
  MEAN continues to investigate other forms of renewable energy — biomass, solar, fuel cells — to meet the needs of our members.
   MEAN is proud to be a leader in energy supply and we will continue to seek ways to provide reliable, low cost energy to our members now and in the future.

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About the manufacturer: NEG Micon
  NEG Micon is based in Denmark, with locations around the world.
  NEG Micon aims to help meet increasing energy requirements worldwide and reduce pollution by developing, marketing, manufacturing and maintaining reliable and efficient wind energy systems.
  NEG Micon's wind turbines generate electricity in more than 40 countries and territories around the world, in all types of climates.
  Since 1997, NEG Micon North America has supplied wind turbine technology for wind power plants valued at more than $500 million, representing more than 560 megawatts of nameplate capacity in North America.
  In spring of 2004, Vestas Wind Systems A/S, who then owned 98 percent of NEG Micon, requested to buy the remaining shares. All shares were transferred by May 19, 2004.



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