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This wind farm is named after The Ohio State University mascot.

Buckeye (Ellis County, Kansas)

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This plant is just down the road from the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.

Lackawanna (near Scranton, PA)

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This project is an LNG-to-energy facility that supplies approximately 30% of the power demand to the small Central American country where it is located

Energia del Pacifico (El Salvador)

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In 1985, Michael Polsky started this company

Indeck Energy Services, Inc.

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The year that Invenergy was founded.

2001

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This wind farm in Texas is named after a large city in south Florida, but it's pronounced differently...

Miami, pronounced "My-am-uh", (approx 80 miles Northeast of Amarillo, Texas)

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This plant was built with half of the original design for another Invenergy gas plant. Parts were deconstructed, shipped, and rebuilt on site of the new plant.

St Clair (Ontario, Canada)

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Invenergy has regional offices in these 3 European countries

Spain, Scotland, and Poland

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Invenergy's first wind farm begins operating in 2004, in the Volunteer state

Buffalo Mountain (Tennessee)

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Invenergy opened its office in Japan in this year

2013

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Country roads, take me home, to the place, I belong... Invenergy's sole project in this state.

Beech Ridge (Rupert, West Virginia)

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This plant shares its name with this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted band: 

Los [Ramones] Energy Center (Mexico)

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This is Invenergy's only International Solar + Storage project

La Toba (Baja California Sur, Mexico)

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This was Invenergy's first storage project

Grand Ridge Storage (Illinois)

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Invenergy's 1000th wind turbine was erected in this year.  This was also the same year that Taylor Swift released her album 'Speak Now'.

2010

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This wind farm is located in an Illinois town named after a port city in southern France.

Grand Ridge (Marseilles, IL)

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This plant was acquired by Invenergy in 2003 from TECO Energy, and and was the first generating plant owned by the company

Hardee Power Station (Bowling Green, Florida)

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This is Invenergy's largest solar project in Japan, achieving commercial operations earlier this year, generating 53.5M kWh annually.

Yuzukami Kita Solar (Japan)

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Invenergy's first wind project in Canada

Raleigh Wind Farm (Ontario, Canada)

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Invenergy officially developed 10,000MW of projects in this year.  This was also the year that Pokemon Go was released and took over the world.

2016

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This wind farm is named after the "Golden State", but happens to be a fan of the Illinois Fighting Illini.

California Ridge (Champaign County, IL)

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This plant is located just shy of 1 mile in elevation, where the "mountains are blue"

Spindle Hill (30 miles northeast of Denver, CO)

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This is Invenergy's largest wind farm in Poland.  This was also Invenergy's first international project.

Tymien (48MW)

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Invenergy's founder and CEO, Michael Polsky, founded this energy company in 1991, which was later sold in 2001 prior to the formation of Invenergy.

SkyGen Energy

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Invenergy's first solar project, Grand Ridge Solar, was built in this year

2012

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This wind farm is named after the mascot of the University of Michigan, but is located in Idaho.  Go Blue

Wolverine Creek (Idaho)

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This plant began when Invenergy purchased the half-completed facility in 2004 from a bankruptcy proceeding, where 1,000 construction workers had been put out of work, and achieved it's COD more than a decade later

Nelson Energy Center (Illinois)

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This is the smallest wind farm Invenergy has ever built in terms of the number of turbines

Bettyhill in Scotland (2 turbine)

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This building housed the first office for Invenergy

Sears Tower

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Invenergy opened its office in Toronto in this year

2006

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Invenergy's sole project in the state of Montana, located in a small town of which the project is named, population 106

Judith Gap (Montana)

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This is a thermal development project that shares its name with this mascot:

Sycamore (Indiana)

700

Invenergy purchased this 64 MW solar farm from Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) in 2015, thus becoming the company's first solar project in Latin America

La Jacinta Solar (Uruguay)

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This Riverside employee has worked for Invenergy the longest, while also contributing a significant amount of their salary to Subway restaurants

Scott Ebner

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Invenergy's first project in Canada, St. Clair Energy Centre, was completed in this year

2009

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During the construction of Buffalo Mountain Energy Center, a custom-built tractor had to be built to maneuver blades around mountainous terrain.  The tractor had this nickname

"Big Elvis"

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This plant is located adjacent to a mothballed nuclear power plant that was never completed and is now a business park

Grays Harbor (Elma, Washington)

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Invenergy sold this Scottish wind farm to Greencoat UK Wind PLC in 2017.  It was Invenergy's 2nd operating wind farm in Scotland.

Corriegarth Wind Farm

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This was the first generating plant to be decommissioned by Invenergy

Grand Ridge IV Battery

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Invenergy opened its office in Mexico in this year

2017

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This wind project is co-located with a behind the meter Bitcoin mining operation.  To the moon!

Desert Sky Wind Farm (Texas)

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This project was a thermal development project sold to Xcel Energy in Colorado, named after this species of rodent:

Squirrel Creek (Fountain, Colorado)

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This is Invenergy's northernmost wind farm is Japan, just 30 miles southwest of a city that is named after Japan's oldest brand of beer

Rusutsu (Hokkaido, Japan, southwest of Sapporo)

900

This Riverside employee keeps a poisonous nut on their desk

Michael Goldstein (Buckeye)

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The Invenergy Control Center (ICC) in Lombard, IL, was opened in this year

2010

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This Invenergy wind project partnered with GE to launch a new GE product that placed a battery storage system at the base of the wind turbine itself, dubbed Brilliant Turbines

Goldthwaite (Texas)

1000

This plant is located near Pachyderm Recording Studios, where Nirvana recorded their 1993 album, In Utero

Cannon Falls (Minnesota)

1000

This was Invenergy's first solar project in Japan, achieving COD in 2019

Koumi (Nagano, Japan)

1000

Prior to building the control center in Lombard, this site hosted Invenergy's first turbine control center

Camp Springs

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Invenergy exceeded 500 employees in this year

2013

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