MidAmerican to build wind farm in Poweshiek County
MidAmerican Energy Co. has chosen a site in Poweshiek County for the third part of its Wind XI project, a development of up to 170 turbines.
Construction should be done by December 2018. The turbines will have a combined capacity of 340 megawatts, the company reported.
The wind farm will share an operations and maintenance building in Montezuma with a wind farm currently under construction in neighboring Mahaska County.
MidAmerican Energy expects to pay up to $137 million in county property taxes and up to $114 million in landowner lease payments over 40 years. The remaining sites for the $3.6 billion Wind XI project will be announced later, with construction beginning over the next two years.