{"id":16843,"date":"2019-05-07T22:28:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T05:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16843"},"modified":"2019-05-07T22:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T05:28:01","slug":"minnesotas-general-mills-and-hormel-buy-wind-power-to-offset-energy-used-to-make-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16843","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota&#8217;s General Mills and Hormel Buy Wind Power to Offset Energy Used to Make Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fmr-associated-content-region\">\n<div id=\"fmr-blog-mm-item\"><a class=\"colorbox init-colorbox-processed cboxElement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.3blmedia.com\/sites\/www.3blmedia.com\/files\/images\/kristenpaint_1556119866_Cactus-Flats-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cactus Flats wind farm in Central Texas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3blmedia.com\/sites\/www.3blmedia.com\/files\/styles\/fmr_page_photos_blog\/public\/images\/kristenpaint_1556119866_Cactus-Flats-6.jpg?itok=RZq4QlaB\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"blog-img-caption\">Cactus Flats wind farm in Central Texas<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fmr-tweet--contents\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"fmr-meta-container--top\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"fmr-blog-newsletter-url\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-fmr-blog-newsletter-url field-type-link-field field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-s-general-mills-and-hormel-buy-wind-power-to-offset-energy-used-to-make-food\/509003962\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Originally published by StarTribune<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"fmr-body\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-fmr-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Two of Minnesota\u2019s largest food companies announced new wind power purchase agreements this month, helping offset the energy used to run their vast operations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">General Mills signed a 15-year purchase agreement with Roaring Fork Wind, LLC in Texas. When coupled with its 2017 wind power agreement, the project will offset all of the electricity used at Golden Valley-based food maker\u2019s owned U.S. facilities for the next decade and a half. It\u2019s the company\u2019s second and largest wind-power purchase agreement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-s-general-mills-and-hormel-buy-wind-power-to-offset-energy-used-to-make-food\/509003962\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cactus Flats wind farm in Central&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16844,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions\/16844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}