MENTONE — Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation is planning to use solar energy to offset the cost of electricity at Mentone Elementary School. TVSC installed a 44-panel solar array on 1.5 acres of school property northeast of the school. The estimated annual energy output of the solar array will be enough to power the entire school. …read more.

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — Thomas Edison once said “So long as the sun shines, man will be able to develop power in abundance.”

MISHAWAKA — Indiana Michigan Power will break ground on its first solar power facility in Michiana.

AKRON — Many in the Akron-Mentone area are familiar with Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation’s wind turbine. Now, the corporation is looking into another renewable energy project, this time with solar power. At a public work session held last evening, Monday, July 20, at the school administration building, TVSC Superintendent Brett Boggs introduced Northern Indiana Power …read more.

Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) has received approval from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to build five solar power facilities across northern Indiana and southern Michigan. I&M intends to use the power to generate electricity and supplement its coal-fired, hydro-electric, nuclear and wind farm operations. Two of the solar facilities will be built in St. Joseph …read more.

The Indianapolis International Airport solar farm, the largest airport-based solar farm in the world, is now officially fully operational. The second phase of the project’s expansion has been completed. According to information from the project’s website, the 75 acre farm has 44,128 solar panels that are capable of producing more than 16.5 million kilowatt hours …read more.