Xcel Energy is officially the owner of a 100-turbine wind farm in Mower and Dodge counties.

The Minneapolis-based energy company announced it closed on a deal to acquire the 200-megawatt Pleasant Valley Wind Farm from the development company Renewable Energy Systems Americas on Nov. 18.

The Pleasant Valley Wind Farm located north of Dexter in the Sargeant area is delivering enough energy to power about 105,000 homes. The wind farm spans nearly 34,000 acres in Mower and Dodge counties. Pleasant Valley is expected to eliminate more than 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, according to Xcel.

“We’re pleased to add Pleasant Valley to our growing wind portfolio, which is generating the carbon-free electricity our customers want,’’ said Chris Clark, regional president of Xcel Energy, in a press release.

Pleasant Valley is one of several wind projects in Xcel Energy’s plan to add 750 megawatts of clean energy to the Upper Midwest system in the next two years. The company is buying wind power from the Odell Wind Farm near Windom, Minnesota. Construction started on the Courtenay Wind Farm in North Dakota this fall and the Border Wind Farm in Rolette County, North Dakota, is expected to come on-line next month.

“Even before it came on line commercially, Pleasant Valley helped us achieve new wind records, and it is part of Xcel Energy’s plan to deliver 35 percent renewable energy to our Upper Midwest customers by 2030,” Clark said in the release.

Xcel called Pleasant Valley an economic driver for the region. RES Americas estimate the project generated $7-$8 million in the community through things like room and board, fuel, gravel, assorted materials and workers spending money at grocery stores and businesses. Mower County officials have previously said the project would add about $400,000 a year in wind production tax revenues likely starting in 2017.

Pleasant Valley created 11 full time jobs and employed hundred of people during peak construction, according to Xcel.

RES Americas first got the green light to start construction on the project — then pegged as a 300-MW wind farm — in 2010.

However, the project was one of many other pending wind farms in the U.S. that stalled because of uncertainty about whether Congress would renew the federal wind production tax credit — a key subsidy for wind energy — before it expired Dec. 31, 2012.

Congress eventually passed an extension of the 2.2 cent-per-kilowatt-hour tax credit, and then Xcel Energy announced plans in July 2013 to buy the wind farm once RES Americas completed construction.

The Mower County board then approved conditional use permits for the project’s transmission line and substation on March 10, 2014.

Construction started in 2014 and much of the work that summer’s work was centered on installing the turbine bases. The turbines began arriving this May and were delivered into August. RES Americas finished erecting turbines in early October before it put the finishing touches on commissioning the turbines.

RES Americas Senior Vice President Chris Hills said Pleasant Valley was an important project for the company.

“It’s been one of our flagship construction projects for the 2014-15 years,” Hills told the Herald in September.

After the turbines were finished, RES Americas shifted to the restoration and reclamation phase of the project. Crews expected to restore the land, put top soil back on the land, and they’ll repair roads. The county has an extensive agreement with RES Americas to restore roads damaged or worn during construction. The temporary RES project offices on the west edge of Sargeant will also be removed and restored.

“Our intention is to make it like we were never here,” Hills said in September.

But not everyone is happy about the project. Earlier this month, a Sargeant Township couple is asking the county board to investigate whether the substation for the Pleasant Valley Wind Farm overshot its permitted area. Dan and Kathy Blanchard, who live near the Pleasant Valley Wind Project substation, went to the board during Tuesday’s regular meeting to voice concerns that a vegetative barrier and junction box surrounding the substation are outside the permitted 2.5-acre scope of the project. The county is investigating.