Iowa’s largest utility company has wrapped up work on its eighth and ninth wind farm projects, and is preparing to start work on its 10th wind project his spring. MidAmerican Energy spokesperson, Ruth Comer, says work on the eighth wind farm wrapped up in early December, and the ninth farm was completed last week….
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The two recently completed wind farms — number eight or the Highland farm in O’Brien County — and number nine, the Adams wind farm in Adams County….
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The Highland farm is the company’s largest, and Comer says it is one of the largest economic development projects in the state. She says they taken advantage of new technology as they’ve installed new turbines. Some of the changes include using concrete for a turbine tower to build it higher to catch more wind, and longer blades on turbines to catch more wind.
The new turbines allows the company to generate 35-hundred megawatts of electricity, which is about 42 percent of the company’s installed generation capacity.