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Friday, April 17, 2009
Environment - Two wind farm groundbreakings in Indiana this week
The ILB has had a number of entries about wind farms. Today Tom Spalding reports in the Indianapolis Star:
Indianapolis Power and Light and enXco will break ground at 10:30 a.m. today on a 106 megawatt wind-turbine farm in Fowler, Ind., known as the Hoosier Wind Project.It's the second such alternative-energy farm to get kicked off in the state this week.
The 200-megawatt Meadow Lake Wind Farm got underway Tuesday in White County.
IPL is adding carbon-free electricity into its "generation portfolio" and will purchase the power generated under a 20-year agreement. IPL will buy enough energy to service about 29,000 homes with clean, emission-free electricity.
The American Wind Energy Association announced earlier this week that Indiana currently boasts the fastest wind power growth rate in the nation based on percentage. It has expanded to 130 megawatts from zero in 2008, completing an additional 400 megawatts in the first quarter of 2009, and breaking ground on the two new projects as this second quarter begins.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 17, 2009 09:00 AM
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