Work has begun on Lyon County’s latest energy production project.
During an interview on KVOE’s Talk of Emporia Monday morning, 4 Rivers Electric Cooperative General Manager Dennis Svanes discussed the ongoing work to install the first of two sun farms in its coverage area. The work schedule for the facility east of Americus is pending, but it will likely follow what’s already happening near Fredonia.
Svanes says the early work has to take some time to ensure the anchors and, by relation, the solar panels can stand the test of time. According to Svanes, the sun farm is a potentially 35-year solar energy project with the initial agreement with Today’s Power set to run for 25 years.
4 Rivers will then have the option to extend the project for five years two times. Despite the slow steady start to the project Svanes says everything is currently on schedule with the sun farm set to go online at the start of June.
The 4 Rivers sun farm project is part of a partnership involving electric cooperatives across Kansas and Today’s Power, an Arkansas company, that will lead to more than 25 solar projects and 40 megawatts of new electricity once the sun farms come online.
