He predicts that wind turbines will be sprouting across a broad section of southern Minnesota based on a wind study by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

“Almost all of southern Minnesota and western Minnesota has commercially developable potential for wind energy, and that includes the Mankato area,” he said.

Who owns the turbines could depend on Walz’s legislation, according to Juhl. Because the legislation doesn’t expand the size of the pool used to finance the tax credit, it could shift some of the benefit from corporations now using the credit to average investors.

Juhl expects those corporate interests to oppose the bill.

“They don’t like to share,” he said. “Their mama didn’t teach them to share. So be it. I think we’ve got a good chance to get this passed.”