The Basics

REDI Resources is poised to be the premier online company directory for Minnesotans who want to plan clean energy projects, beginning with wind!

What is REDI Resources? REDI Resources is an online directory featuring companies all over the United States who serve Minnesota’s clean energy industry. With plans to expand into other technologies in the future, the directory is currently focused on wind energy. For those planning projects, there could not be a simpler way to find companies who provide exactly the services you need. For companies in the industry, there could not be an easier way to be found and expand your portfolio.

Find Companies: The REDI Resources directory allows you to browse companies; to search by specific services like engineering, operations & maintenance, or legal services; to find companies near you using geographic search; and to find companies through a range of other details like service area, number of employees, or completed project capacity. Visit the directory.

Create a Portfolio: Once you have found companies that you want to follow up with you can create a portfolio that allows you to tag them, organize them, and export your lists to a PDF. Compiling a list of qualified companies for your request for proposals just got a whole lot easier! Create an account and get started.

Be Found: There are currently around forty companies in the REDI Resources directory—there could not be a better time to add your company! Add your company right now by following our four simple steps. We will have you create an account, change your password, add your company, then add at least one office location—that’s all!

Did we mention it’s free? REDI Resources is a completely free service for those planning projects or for companies who want to be found.

What is REDI?

REDI is short for the Rural Energy Development Initiative, a statewide program administered by the Southwest Initiative Foundation (SWIF) and sponsored by the State of Minnesota, the Center for Rural Policy and Development, and the McKnight Foundation. The goal of REDI is to maximize rural economic development and stabilize rural economies by building renewable energy capacity, expertise and leadership throughout Minnesota.

REDI encompasses three broad categories of rural wind energy development support including:

• Outreach and public education: REDI helps rural Minnesota better understand energy development opportunities, technologies and business models.
• Project development assistance: REDI helps private, public and nonprofit stakeholders gain the capacity and practical know-how to successfully develop community wind energy projects.
• Early stage project development financing: REDI provides loan financing for costs related to early-stage project development and feasibility analysis for wind energy electric generation projects that intend to sell the electricity to an electric utility.