Jim Rudisill
for The Hawk Eye
WAPELLO The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the largest solar energy facility in Iowa, the 127.5 megawatt – direct current Wapello Solar photovoltaic project located on nearly 800 acres of land south of Wapello, was held Friday under a mostly cloudy sky.
Although the cloudy sky prevented the 318,000 solar panels from operating at full capacity, several of the dignitaries who spoke pointed out the facility is capable of providing enough power for more than 20,000 homes. They also explained that since becoming operational in March, the facility along with other clean energy operations in the state now is an important contributor to the Midwest and national power grid.
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12/11/20
Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company LLC announced today that, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, it
purchased a 50 MW operating wind farm from RPMA Iowa Wind Development LLC.. The project, Rippey Wind Holding LLC, is located in Greene County, Iowa and has a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement in place with the investment-grade utility Central Iowa Power Cooperative. The project reached commercial operations in 2012.
“We’re excited to expand our wind portfolio in Iowa with RPMA.” said
Charles Wheeler, CEO of Greenbacker. “GREC has experienced phenomenal growth as we near the end of 2020 and Rippey is one of our largest wind projects, typifying this acceleration of acquisitions.”