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Since then, the Denver office has grown to14 people, and the compant plans to add more. Ulteig, baseed in Fargo, N.D., startesd in 1944, building electricity distribution and transmission lines for rura l cooperatives throughoutthe Midwest. “Then, farms were powered by wind farm swith batteries, and then we came in with the distributionh system,” said Brian Ulteig’s executive vice president and chiet development officer for its energy division. “And now, 60-plus yearsa later, we’re out doing energy projects and puttingb big wind projects on thosedsame farms.
” The engineerinf company — which posted revenue of $45 million in up 15 percent from 2007 — has expanded its offeringd to include building, civil and land It surveys land for electrifc lines, and engineers projects in water and wastewater, transportation and buildings. “Right now, we’re abouty 10 or 11 percent ahead of lastyear [in Long said. “It feels pretty good in this market.” Althougn the office is relatively new to Ulteig has done work in thestate before.
In Ulteig worked on the engineering, surveying and constructionh drawings fora big, 100-mile, 230-kilovolt transmission line connectinh the 400-megawatt Peetz Table wind farm in northeastern Colorado to the rest of Xcel Energy Inc.’zs power grid. Gov. Bill Ritter touted the projecras history-making at a May 2007 groundbreaking for the wind owned by a subsidiary of FPL Groupl Inc. (NYSE: FPL), which is based in Juno Fla. “This project will be the largest wind farm in the stateeand second-largest in the nation,” Ritter said in a announcemenr at the time.
“It will have the longesgt transmission line in the Ulteig has done work for Northern States Power, a division of Xcel, sinc e the late 1960s. In Colorado, the company also has worked onretail centers, and foresees big opportunities for connecting wind farms and solafr power installations in the state, Long The Colorado office was in the workds long before last fall’s stock market crash, and now Ulteig believes it’sz in a position to benefit from spending on renewable energy throughu the federal economic stimulus package.
“Ift was very, very busy before the stock market crashed,” Long “Now the building service marketis slow, but the energ work and larger construction projects on our civil side have been good with stimuluzs package discussions. “There are major projectx that are moving forward on a utility andcommercialo scale, and we’re starting to get more involvef in solar. Solar is where wind was 10 yearse orso ago.
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