State s first solar battery project helps power Burt County Share Updated: 11:26 PM CDT Jul 8, 2021 Keegan Cooper Share Updated: 11:26 PM CDT Jul 8, 2021
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Show Transcript HIGHWAY 75 WINTERBERG COUNTY. YOU MOST LIKELY SEE GREEN SPACES ANYWHERE YOU GO INCLUDING SOME FARMLAND AND HOMES. BUT TAKE A LITTLE DETOUR OFF THIS DIRT ROAD. YOU’LL FDIN THE FIRST SOLAR AND BATTERY POWERED PROJECT IF IT ’ NDKI ANYWHERE IN NEBRASKA JUST WEEKS AFTER THIS SITE WENT. LINE, WE TOOK A TOUR WITH WILL CRANE FROM BLUESTEM ENERGY SOLUTIONS AND JOHN DOCKHORN OF BURT COUNTY PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT. THIS IS A LONG-TERM PROJECT. I ME THIANS PROJECT’S GOING TO LAST 30 YEARS AND WE NEED A DIVERSE GENERATION POROLTFIO. AND THIS IS ONE ASPECT OF IT. THE IDEA DAWNED IN EARLY 201. TEAM CRANE AND DARK CORN TELL US BLUESTEM ERGYNE AND BURT COUNTY PPD CRUNCHED THE NUMBERS TO MAKE ISTH SMAERLL SCALE PROJECT A REALITY CALCULATED THE POTENTIAL SAVINGS THAT W