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Supporting Home Grown Energy: Koshkonong Solar Energy Center

Imagine a different Wisconsin. One where coal and methane gas-fired power plants are a thing of the past. Instead, we rely on our own home-grown clean energy. The Koshkonong Solar Energy Center is a first step toward that clean energy future.

Koshkonong Solar will:

  • Provide enough energy to power 60,000 homes – a quarter of the households Dane County
  • Reduce carbon emissions by 15-20 million tons over its life
  • Generate $1.2 million in local tax revenue every year
  • Reduce agricultural pollution runoff into already impaired local waterways like Koshkonong Creek
  • Provide deep-rooted prairie habitat among the solar arrays for pollinators, including Wisconsin’s endangered rusty patch bumblebee
An empty, tilled field

The Koshkonong Solar Energy Center, located in the Towns of Christiana and Deerfield in Dane County, will have:

300

megawatt solar electric generation facility

165

megawatt battery energy storage system

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