In June 2005, Navigant Consulting Inc was hired by the University of Illinois to do a feasibility study, which would include

• a wind turbine-generator fatal flaw analysis for setting up to four wind turbine-generators on the property owned by UIUC in the South Farms area.
• To develop a preliminary economic analysis of the wind turbine-generator bus-bar electric costs.
• Results of the study will be used by UIUC to prepare an application to the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation