A dozen rural electric cooperatives in Kansas have banded together to build a 20 megawatt solar system to power 80,000 homes.
4 Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc. was joined by 11 other cooperatives to invest in the system that will be installed across 800 miles of the state, according to WIBW TV.
Two solar farms, to be located north of Emporia in the Flint Hills and near Fredonia could be operational by June of this year.
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