{"id":1376,"date":"2014-12-22T16:04:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T22:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2014-12-22T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T22:04:45","slug":"les-adds-wind-solar-farms-in-major-push-to-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/22\/les-adds-wind-solar-farms-in-major-push-to-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"LES adds wind, solar farms in major push to renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalstar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Journal Star<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Friday was more than a banner day for the Lincoln Electric System. It was equivalent to a seismic shift in the way Lincoln residents will get their power over the next 25 years.\u00a0Adding power from two wind farms and a solar energy project will increase the utility&#8217;s renewable generation portfolio to 48 percent by 2016.<\/p>\n<p>LES will add 173 megawatts of power generated from a wind farm in north-central Kansas and one in northeast Nebraska in 2016 and add a 5-megawatt solar energy farm along Interstate 80 near 75th and West Holdrege streets near the Lincoln airport.\u00a0The solar farm&#8217;s footprint &#8212; equivalent to slightly more than 30 acres of land, or about 25 football fields &#8212; will be visible to motorists much like the two wind turbines on the east edge of Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/local\/les-adds-wind-solar-farms-in-major-push-to-renewable\/article_26876bc7-a083-5747-a6bb-30c8c8044bd3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Lincoln Journal Star: Friday was more than a banner day for the Lincoln Electric System. It was equivalent to a seismic shift in the way Lincoln residents will get their power over the next 25 years.\u00a0Adding power from two wind farms and a solar energy project will increase the utility&#8217;s renewable generation portfolio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/22\/les-adds-wind-solar-farms-in-major-push-to-renewable-energy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LES adds wind, solar farms in major push to renewable energy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[13,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}