Upside Down Under: The Saudi Arabia of wind. . .

When I was working at the Minot Daily News, I interviewed Sen. Kent Conrad one day about the rise of wind energy in North Dakota. On that day, there was a groundbreaking ceremony for a wind energy project near Velva.

At one point during our interview Conrad told me that wind energy has no limit in North Dakota because “we are the Saudi Arabia of wind.”

Most of us know that Saudi Arabia has...