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By - Associated Press - Friday, April 23, 2021 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa electric power provider has announced new plans for a huge solar farm in eastern Iowa. The solar farm will be located in Linn County near Coggon and will provide 100 more megawatts of power to Central Iowa Power Cooperative members, cooperative CEO Bill Cherrier told television station KCCI. Cherrier said the solar field will begin operations in 2022, and is projected to create 350 construction jobs at its peak. TOP STORIES News of the new project follows the utility’s construction of a more than 300,000-panel solar power farm south of Wapello. The 100-megawatt Wapello Solar Facility covering 800 acres in Louisa County began delivering power to the Iowa grid last mo ....
Central Iowa Power Cooperative and Clēnera Announce Power Purchase Agreement for Northern Iowa Solar Project A new solar project in Iowa will provide another 100 megawatts (MWAC) of cost-effective power to Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO) members. BOISE, IDAHO, UNITED STATES, April 16, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ CIPCO and Clēnera are pleased to announce the execution of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for Coggon Solar LLC. Coggon Solar is CIPCO’s second solar PPA with Clēnera, which comes on the heels of the completion of the 100-megawatt (MWAC) Wapello Solar LLC project in southeast Iowa. Coggon Solar will be located on private land in Linn County, Iowa, approximately two miles from Coggon and 31 miles from Cedar Rapids ....
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. ....