Statewide Iowa — An electric and gas utility that serves more than 700 Iowa towns, including eight in our immediate area, has received approval to add more windpower to its generating capacity.
Justin Foss is a spokesman for Alliant Energy, and he says they plan to have the additional capacity built by 2020 and it will provide enough energy to power 430-thousand homes. The company plans to add the wind turbines at several wind farms.
Foss says they’re also planning to add a wind farm in our area.
Foss says they are benefiting from the improvement in turbines and says they saw that from the approval of the first 500 megawatt project to the second.
He says one thing that is improving is the size of the power generator for the turbines. Recent generators were one-point-six-five megawatts.
Foss says the expansion, combined with existing wind farms and market purchases, will allow the company to get approximately one-third of its Iowa total capacity from wind energy by the end of 2020.
Here in our immediate area, Alliant Energy serves customers in the communities of Allendorf, Ashton, Cloverdale, George, Harris, Little Rock, Melvin and Sibley.
