Sierra Club Statement on Historic Lincoln Electric System Clean Energy Purchase

LINCOLN, Neb. –(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2014.  Today, Lincoln Electric System (LES) announced that it signed 25 year contracts to purchase  73 megawatts of power from the from the Prairie Breeze II wind farm in Nebraska and 100 megawatts of power from the BuckEye wind farm in Kansas.  Both projects will be constructed in the coming year and start producing power in 2015.

LES estimates that the wind energy purchases will save the public power utility approximately $435…