Officials with Iowa’s largest utility unveiled plans today (Thursday) to add two new wind farms in the state. They’ll be built in Ida and O’Brien Counties, both in northwest Iowa. Ruth Comer (KOH-mur) is a spokesperson for MidAmerican Energy.
The other project involves 104 turbines and it will be MidAmerican’s second wind farm in O’Brien County.
The two new projects will add up to 552 megawatts of wind generation capacity, according to Comer. With the addition of the Ida Grove and O’Brien wind farms, MidAmerican Energy will operate wind farms in 23 Iowa counties.
In 2014, Iowa generated more than 28 percent of its electricity from wind — more than any other state in the country.
