Sioux City, Iowa (RI) — MidAmerican Energy is pulling the plug on a wind farm it had proposed in northwest Iowa.
Woodbury County Board of Supervisors chairman Dan Bittinger says he’s been notified of the company’s decision.
MidAmerican’s proposed Siouxland Wind Farm would have had about 60 wind turbines.
At times, crowds of over 100 people had attended Woodbury County supervisors’ meetings to express their opposition to the project.
Woodbury County Supervisor Mark Nelson says the intense public debate about the project turned out to be a positive.
MidAmerican unveiled plans for the wind farm in late 2021 and began acquiring easements in early 2022. Some landowners have already received annual payments for those easements, and a MidAmerican spokesman says they’ll be able to keep that money.
MidAmerican owns and operates more wind energy than any other investor-owned utility in the nation. The company says it considers a number of factors when deciding whether the continue projects, including acceptance from the community and increases in costs.
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