Two area utilities are adding solar power to their portfolios of electrical generation to meet the needs of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas. The first of solar electrical generation operation will come online in the next two weeks when Liberty Utilities completes its first 2.2-megawatt solar farm near Prosperity, east of Webb City and south of Carterville in Jasper County. In Kansas, Heartland Rural Electric Cooperative is building two 1-megawatt solar arrays in two locations in Crawford and Neosho counties, including one next to the Greenbush Education Service Center on Highway 47 between Girard and St. Paul.
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