Indiana & Michigan Power has begun work on a $37 million solar farm in Granger, southeast of Bittersweet Road and the Indiana Toll Road. The utility expects the project to be finished in the spring. Tribune Photo/ROBERT FRANKLIN
Later than initially planned, Indiana Michigan Power has begun construction on a solar farm in Granger, southeast of Bittersweet Road and the Indiana Toll Road, in what will become its largest solar facility.
After winning state approval for the project in March, the utility said it would start work in April and have the solar farm built and generating power by this fall, but recently announced it won’t be finished until the spring.
I&M spokesman Brian Bergsma said he wasn’t able to identify a reason for the project’s delay.
“There’s a lot of factors that go into any construction project,” Bergsma said. “I don’t think there is one issue that we could say, here’s the reason.”
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission is letting the utility recoup the project’s $37 million cost through a rate tracker that will increase the average monthly bill by 19 cents, once the plant connects to the grid.
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