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Plans for nearly 3 dozen wind turbines scrapped in Madison County

Ag/Outdoor, News

August 5th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Winterset, Iowa) – A wind farm project featuring 30 turbines has been scrapped in Madison County. Officials with MidAmerican Energy told KCCI in Des Moines, that the utility company says it canceled the Arbor Hill project, because of the circumstances surrounding their original plans have changed, including the number of turbines they were allowed to construct.

In a statement to the television station, MidAmerican said “While the project in Madison County won’t proceed, we have proudly partnered with more than 4,000 landowners across Iowa to host wind turbines that are critical to our ability to deliver customers clean, renewable energy – in 2021, that amounted to more than 88% of the energy our Iowa customers used.”