The Goose Creek Wind Project, which would include up to 120 turbines producing as much as 200 megawatts of power in northern Piatt County, Illinois, has been proposed by Virginia-based Apex Clean Energy, Kallanish Energy reports.
Apex hopes to have the wind farm project online by the end of 2021, the Piatt County Journal-Republican newspaper reported.
While still in the early planning stages, “most of the development would be in the northern portion of the project area, and would be in Goose Creek, Sangamon and Blue Ridge townships, for the most part,” Alan Moore, a development manager for Apex, told the Journal-Republican.
Moore told the paper his company is in the process of talking to landowners and farmers, talking through their concerns and issues … as well as working at the county level to make sure county officials are kept apprised where Apex is in the development process.
Piatt County was selected by Apex due to the availability of wind, the rural nature of the county, and transmission lines already in place for a natural gas-fired peaking power plant in the area, Moore said.
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