Crystal Lake Wind Farm is an electricity generating

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facility in Winnebago and

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. It is owned by a subsidiary of

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-based Next Era and began operations in 2008. With the completion of phase 3 of the project it has a generating capacity of 416

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s . It is located roughly five miles from

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, and is on the edge of

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, which the wind farm is named after.

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