The opening ceremony came one week after the nearly 21 acre facility began supplying roughtly 2% of electricity used by the University of Illinois Urbana campus.

The new solar farm is the first solar power installation in east central Illinois large enough to be considered "utility grade", generating enough electricity to power 700 average American homes.

There's a twenty-one acre solar farm sprouting on the South Farms at the University of Illinois. Read more to find out how it fits into our plan to become carbon neutral!

The newest crop at the U of I South Farms will not be fruits or vegetables, but electricity. A solar farm is expected to begin supplying some of the electricty used on the Urbana campus by Thanksgiving.