Massive solar farm spanning Morgan, Sangamon celebrated

AUBURN — Officials from across Illinois are celebrating the completion of an enormous solar panel farm built in west-central Illinois. Boston-based energy company Swift Current Energy held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday at its Auburn office for the Double Black Diamond solar panel farm. Built outside of Virden and Waverly, the solar farm straddles Morgan and […]

ABC7 I-Team gets exclusive 1st look at massive Illinois solar farm powering Chicago

Swift Current Energy team in hard hats and vests in front of solar panels

CHICAGO (WLS) — It’s an audacious effort by the city of Chicago to pay for hundreds of of megawatts of clean energy to offset power usage in the airports and every firehouse, police district, library and city-owned building. The I-Team tracked Chicago energy usage with an exclusive look inside the clean energy compound. Read more…