Alliant Energy completes 50-MW union-built solar project in Wisconsin

• Alliant Energy, a Wisconsin public utility, has actually completed its initial utility-scale solar project in the state. The 50-MW Bear Creek Solar Project in Richland County is currently operational and will certainly create enough electricity to power approximately 13,000 homes.

" This project represents a substantial, long-term financial investment in our community," said Van Nelson, the clerk for town of Buena Vista. "The town quite valued just how well they were kept educated of development throughout the project. The solid partnership with Alliant Energy as well as its commitment to responsible stewardship ensures that this solar farm will certainly deliver economic, environmental as well as financial benefits for decades to come."

Along with this site creating clean solar energy to power homes and also businesses, Richland County and the town of Buena Vista will certainly get an estimated $200,000 in consolidated shared revenue payments yearly for the following 30 years via the state's shared revenue program.

" Across Wisconsin, Alliant Energy is working with families, farmers, businesses as well as communities to establish renewable energy projects both big as well as small," said David de Leon, president of Alliant Energy. "This project is an unbelievable turning point for our customers. Assisted by our purpose-driven approach to offer consumers and construct more powerful communities, this solar farm expands our energy portfolio, increases American energy self-reliance and boosts access to affordable electricity."

Alliant Energy is complying with the strategy outlined in its Clean Energy Blueprint to create more than 1,000 MW of utility-scale solar energy at 12 sites across Wisconsin. The Bear Creek Solar Project is the first of these 12 sites to come to be operational. Three extra projects are expected to go into solution later on this year.

Building and construction of the Bear Creek solar farm started in July 2021. Burns & McDonnell was the EPC professional for the project and hired operating engineers, carpenters, laborers and also electrical contractors from several neighborhood union halls.

" When services partner with the competent forces of Wisconsin's unionized building trades, they recognize they're going to get a risk-free, quality item that delivers exceptional value for everybody," claimed Emily Pritzkow, executive director of the Wisconsin Building Trades Council. "By focusing on the use of regional unionized labor on renewable energy projects, Alliant Energy is sustaining a strong labor force, maintaining project dollars in the community as well as increasing our state economic situation."

Alliant Energy plans to eliminate coal from its generation fleet by 2040 as well as accomplish net-zero carbon dioxide exhausts from the electricity it produces by 2050. Following the strategies set out in its Clean Energy Blueprint, Alliant Energy's 12 utility-scale projects will certainly produce greater than 2,000 local construction jobs and give an approximated $130 million in neighborhood tax revenues over the next 30 years.