IKEA US has announced that it is making its first wind farm investment in the USA with the purchase of the 98MW Hoopeston wind farm in Hoopeston, Illinois, USA.
The project is currently being constructed by Apex Clean Energy and is expected to be fully operational by the first half of 2015. The Hoopeston Wind project will install 49 Vestas V100-2.0MW wind turbines near Hoopeston in Vermilion County, Illinois, approximately 110 miles south of Chicago.