Illinois is on its way to surpassing 1,000 megawatts of installed wind energy with its giant Cayuga Ridge wind farm south of Chicago.
Iberdrola Renewables will source wind energy
from its 300-MW Streator Cayuga Ridge South project currently being
constructed near the villages of Odell and Emington, Illinois, south of
Chicago. Once completed around
March, the project will supplement Illinois’s current wind generating
capacity of about 1,000 MW. The Iberdrola project is expected to
generate 331 direct construction jobs in the area. more