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Associated Press - July 4, 2009 4:25 PM ET
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The parent company of Indianapolis Power & Light Co. is planning a wind farm with 200 or more towers that could become the state's largest generator of the alternative energy.
AES Vice President Paul Burdick tells The Indianapolis Star that turbines could start going up next year in a 75,000-acre area along the Clinton-Tipton county line about 35 miles north of Indianapolis.
Burdick says Virginia-based AES hopes the windfarm can produce 400 megawatts of electricity. That's roughly the output of a midsize coal-burning power plant and enough to power about 400,000 homes.
A 300-megawatt wind project in Benton and Tippecanoe counties is due to come online this year.
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