Jacobs Electric Company

jacobs wind electric co. inc. is the oldest renewable energy company in the united states. it has been designing consumer & commercial renewable energy systems sized to the changing distributed electric loads of their periods since the mid-1920s & have sense expanded into solar, renewable housing, green transportation technologies, renewable fuels & green project finance. the firm was started and established by marcellus & joseph jacobs, after local interest in their wind electric system for their family’s montana ranch, built in 1922, brought them requests from neighbors to provide them with wind generated electric power as well. m.l. & joe moved the firm to minneapolis in 1963 to begin production of improved wind/engine distributed energy systems which were sold in the u.s., canada, and mexico, as well as on every major continent, through a dealer network that grew to over 300. early jacobs' machines included one taken to antarctica by richard evelyn byrd and installed (at byrd's