{"id":321251,"date":"2025-05-03T02:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T02:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-biggest-solar-farm-east-of-the-mississippi-is-now-powering-chicago\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T02:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T02:11:48","slug":"the-biggest-solar-farm-east-of-the-mississippi-is-now-powering-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-biggest-solar-farm-east-of-the-mississippi-is-now-powering-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest solar farm east of the Mississippi is now powering Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/the-biggest-solar-farm-east-of-the-mississippi-is-now-powering-chicago.png\" \/>Swift Current Energy\u2019s 800-megawatt (MW) Double Black Diamond Solar is up and running about 30 miles west of Springfield. It\u2019s now the largest operating solar farm east of the Mississippi, and it\u2019s set to make a serious dent in emissions while delivering clean energy to major customers, including the City of Chicago. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/05\/02\/biggest-solar-farm-east-of-the-mississippi-is-now-powering-chicago\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-biggest-solar-farm-east-of-the-mississippi-is-now-powering-chicago\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":321252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}