Dan has pioneered conservation and renewable energy technologies, particularly wind power, in the Midwest for over 30 years. During his tenure in the wind industry, Dan's activities have covered every aspect of the technology including R&D, design, manufacturing, development, installation, and O&M. He has also been instrumental in helping to form public policy by working with legislators and regulators on the workings and benefits of utilizing renewables in the energy mix, and is considered to be one of the nations leading experts on wind technology and community owned renewable distributive generation. Dan has developed 1,500 MW of wind generation in his 30 years of experience in the field. He has been a consultant to Edison Capital, Johnson Controls, John Deere Capital, Nordex Turbines, Suzlon Turbine Manufacturing, Nebraska Power and Excel Energy. He has appeared before numerous state and federal governmental bodies advocating wind power and community-based energy development on behalf of landowners, farmers, and ranchers. Dan also wrote the popular wind energy reference guidebook Harvesting Wind Energy As A Cash Crop.

Mr. Mitola has over 20 years experience in energy and environmental industries. He was the CEO of Electric City Corp from 2000-2006 leading the company from its start up phase for six years as a publicly traded company. While trading on the American Stock Exchange the firm was selected one of the fastest growing small companies in the U.S. Prior to Electric City, Mr. Mitola was a Vice President and General Manager of Exelon Thermal Technologies and led the creation of Commonwealth Edison's (now Exelon) first unregulated subsidiary. Mr. Mitola has also been a managing partner of Kingsdale Capital, a private equity and capital advisory firm and has been appointed twice by the Governor of Illinois as the Chairman of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. Mr. Mitola received his BS in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana and Juris Doctor from DePaul University, College of Law.

Mr. Michaud has a diverse and extensive background in engineering and public policy regarding generation interconnection, transmission planning, distributed energy policy, and industrial power systems.  He was an independent consultant from 2003-2008. During this time he participated on behalf of wind industry interests in FERC Interconnection Rulemaking dockets.  He was a member of the Technical Review Committee for the Minnesota Wind Integration Study and the Minnesota Department of Commerce Dispersed Renewable Generation Phase I Study.  He also was appointed to the Minnesota state legislature CBED Task Force.  From 1990-2003 he worked on energy policy issues for the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, The Minnesota Department of Commerce, and the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board.  He represented state agency interests as a Regulatory Participant Member of the regional MAPP Transmission Planning Subcommittee process.  He helped develop state technical interconnection standards for wind and other distributed generation resources.  Prior to state service, Mr. Michaud accumulated fifteen years experience on industrial power systems as an engineer in the Paper Industry.  He obtained a Master of Science Degree from the Hubert H. Humphrey Public Policy Institute, University of Minnesota, in Science & Technology Policy.  His Master’s Thesis topic was on “Present and Future Economics of Distributed Wind/Hydrogen Power Plants.”  He also obtained a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Degree from the Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota.

Mr.  Brand became our Chief Financial Officer in January 2009.  He is a former certified public accountant and has held Chief Financial Officer and division controllership positions with in both public and private companies in technology, business services and energy-related businesses. Mr. Brand has over 25 years of business experience, including 14 years in audit and tax services with public accounting firms, including Grant Thornton. Mr. Brand received his BA in Accounting from St. Cloud State University.

Corey got his official start in the Wind Energy business in 2003 when he helped construct the 18MW wind farm know as DanMar I. Since then he has been involved in several aspects of wind power development including: working with project land owners, state and local permitting, collecting/analyzing wind speed data, micro-siting, and coordinating responses for various requests for proposals. Today, Corey serves as the Vice President of Project Development for Juhl Wind. Mr. Juhl is a graduate of South Dakota State University located in Brookings, SD.

Tyler started in the renewable energy business in 1994 putting up wind monitoring stations and building back-up and off-grid power systems with his father (Dan Juhl). Tyler started his commercial wind career in 2000 working on foundation, tower erection crews and performing maintenance on his family's wind farm. He now works as a project manager and as VP of Operations and Maintenance.

Mr. Bendel was introduced to wind turbine construction by Dan Juhl and has collaborated with Dan in over 150 MW of wind turbine construction. Jeff oversees the Company's day-to-day construction activities of all wind projects.