Omaha Public Power District held a ribbon cutting for its newest power generation facility last week. Platteview Solar consists of 188,000 solar panels on 500 privately owned acres near Yutan. Total capacity is 81 megawatts, enough to power 14,000 homes. It is the largest solar project in Nebraska. This project is just one of several to add 2.5 gigawatts of new generation to OPPD’s capacity. Other projects being completed this year are two new natural gas plants, which will have a combined capacity of 600 megawatts. – Isaiah Ang
