A developer is hoping to build the largest solar field in Iowa just northeast of Fort Dodge.The Messenger reports that the Holliday Creek solar project would produce about 100 megawatts when completed. That's enough to power about 30,000 average homes.Webster County Supervisor Keith Dencklau says that EDF Renewable Energy is currently talking with local landowners about the project.The company hopes to sign a 37-year lease for 1,000- to 1,200-acres of land east of the Fort Dodge Regional Airport, south of Badger and west of Vincent.Leanne Russell Fate, a project developer for the company, says the area was targeted due to the availability of transmission capacity, community interest and suitability of the land.The company previously built a large wind turbine farm in southern Webster County.

A developer is hoping to build the largest solar field in Iowa just northeast of Fort Dodge.



The Messenger reports that the Holliday Creek solar project would produce about 100 megawatts when completed. That's enough to power about 30,000 average homes.



Webster County Supervisor Keith Dencklau says that EDF Renewable Energy is currently talking with local landowners about the project.




The company hopes to sign a 37-year lease for 1,000- to 1,200-acres of land east of the Fort Dodge Regional Airport, south of Badger and west of Vincent.



Leanne Russell Fate, a project developer for the company, says the area was targeted due to the availability of transmission capacity, community interest and suitability of the land.



The company previously built a large wind turbine farm in southern Webster County.

