Inside an Earthrise peaker plant, a key to connecting Will County solar farms to the grid

Inside an Earthrise peaker plant, a key to connecting Will County solar farms to the grid

As Earthrise Energy looks to fire up solar farms across Illinois, the key to making them useful is directly linked to the five natural gas power plants it’s spent the last few years purchasing.

Inside an Earthrise peaker plant, a key to connecting Will County solar farms to the grid – Chicago Tribune*

The Will County Board will soon consider the 600-megawatt Manhattan solar farm proposal - across 45 square miles of prime Illinois farmland - and a similar 260-megawatt facility in Crete. They’ll also reconsider six smaller projects they’d already rejected. They’re doing so after the solar operators involved sued, and a judge ordered the county to issue the permits.