Iowa s biggest solar farm opens in kalona will generate enough energy to power about 120 homes leighton yoder of kalona and his son austin yoder 13 view information on the back of a solar module.
Farmers electric kalona iowa purchase solar panels.
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Farmers electric s new farm adds 2 900 solar panels to the region s growing base of sun powered energy.
Farmers electric cooperative selected iowa wind and solar as the winning contractor to install the nearly 1 mw solar field.
At the time this solar farm was the largest solar installation in iowa.
To understand the size of this array you could think of it as enough to power more than 200 homes.
The utility forked over 120 000 upfront enabling egg producer farmers hen house and kalona organics to buy and revive the plant.
Eagle point solar of dubuque built and owns the farm.
Farmers electric jump started the effort through an agreement to purchase a nine acre swath of the property to house two solar farms answering demand for more generation.
A 4 5 acre array of solar panels was installed in 2014 on a field adjacent to farmers hen house s property.
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This brings fec s total solar array size to nearly 2 mw.
The cooperative will buy the power and.