Project Overview
Bright Stalk Wind Farm is located 20 miles northeast of Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. Located entirely within McLean County, the wind farm complements the area’s corn and soybean fields, providing local communities and farmers with a stable, drought-resistant cash crop in the form of property taxes and landowner lease payments.
Energy Output
Bright Stalk Wind Farm has an installed capacity of 205 megawatts (MW). Bright Stalk's generation is equivalent to the consumption of more than 70,000 Illinois homes.
Benefits
Community
Bright Stalk Wind Farm yields significant economic benefits to the community in the form of payments to landowners, local spending, and annual community investment.
Bright Stalk represents a capital investment of approximately $287 million and will disburse millions in payments to local governments through the life of the project. The project created 174 full-time equivalent jobs during construction as well as 10 permanent jobs. Through 2019, approximately $2.8 million has been spent within 50 miles of the wind farm.
Environment
Bright Stalk Wind Farm saves more than 355 million gallons of water each year and displaces carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants, a major contributor to climate change. Wind energy also enhances air quality by helping to mitigate the health effects of harmful air pollutants.
Landowners
Bright Stalk Wind Farm is compatible with other land uses and provides a stable form of income to local landowners. Millions of dollars will be paid to the wind farm’s landowners through the life of the project. These supportive landowners participate in long-term lease and easement agreements that cover turbines, access roads, and transmission corridors.
Technology
Turbines
Modern wind turbine generators are sophisticated, high-tech machines designed to capture the kinetic energy of the wind and convert it into electricity. A turbine’s blades capture the wind and rotate an internal shaft connected to a gearbox spinning a generator to produce electricity.
Bright Stalk Wind Farm consists of 57 Vestas V136 3.6 MW wind turbines.
Made in the USA
The vast majority of wind farm equipment is manufactured in the United States.
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