The company, along with National Wind Assessments, has 50 employees based in Minneapolis, MN and Grand Forks, North Dakota.

In the traditional model, landowners do not own shares of the wind project, but instead are either paid a monthly lease or given royalties from the sale of electricity.

On the other hand, National Wind's model aims to share both revenue and influence within local communities.

On February 22, 2008, Minnesota’s largest newspaper, the Star Tribune, featured National Wind on the cover of the business section.

CEO Leon Steinberg, representing one America's "leading wind-energy developers," was also cited in a July 2008 U.S. News & World Report article on the importance of the federal production tax credit for the growing industry.