The Meadow Lake Wind Farm represents an important project in Indiana's initiative for increasing installed renewable energy capacity. Located in the northwestern part of Indiana, the farm will stretch across the White and Benton Counties. Indiana has a significant wind power potential, and the chosen location has many benefits, for example electrical energy transport access, and proximity to power markets. Phase I of the Meadow Lake project will see some 200 MW of wind power capacity installed. Phase II is actually quite larger, potentially bringing an additional 800 MW of installed wind power capacity to the states renewable energy total.

Meadow Lake Wind Farm will bring some 400 temporary jobs, and 20 permanent jobs once the project becomes operational. Wind turbines used for the project will be 121 Vestas V82 1.65 MW units. Horizon Wind Energy, the wind farm developer and operator, is owned by EDP Renewables, one of the largest wind power operators in the world, with more than 2.5 GW of installed wind power capacity.

Indiana wind resource map. (Image credit: NREL.gov)

In total, that's about 1 GW of wind power installed in Indiana in the "near" future, which is great news for the region.