GEEFS is investing with Wachovia Investment Holdings LLCproviding structured equity for the 18-megawatt wind farm. Thefarm, covering 14,000 acres in Dickey, McIntosh and McPhersoncounties. The three counties span a part of the North Dakota-SouthDakota border. Dickey County has 61 turbines, McPherson County has59 turbines and McIntosh hosts transmission lines.

"We are helping ACCIONA with Tatanka," says Tim Howell, managingdirector and origination leader of renewable energy at GEEFS, in astatement. "To charge into the American wind industry with a majorproject in the best wind farming area of the US." North Dakota andSouth Dakota are ranked, respectively, at number one and numberfour for wind energy potential by the American Wind EnergyAssociation.

The wind farm contains 120 ACCIONA 1.5 megawatt turbines and canprovide enough energy to power over 60,000 average homes, accordingto GE's release. Susan Nickey, CFO of ACCIONA Energy North America,explains in a statement, "The Dakotas' high wind energy potentialand low population means that wind power will be available totransmit to the rest of the Midwest." She adds that Tatanka is partof ACCIONA's goal of "reducing the worlds CO2 emissions by 220million tons in the next 23 years." GEEFS holds equity in 38 windfarms across the US.