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Microsoft Corp. will buy wind power from a new Illinois wind farm for the next 20 years to offset its power needs, part of a plan by the technology company to become offset its carbon output.
The 175-megawatt wind farm is under construction 60 miles outside Chicago at the border of Kankakee and Iroquois Counties. It’s 96 percent owned by EDF Renewable Energy, a U.S. subsidiary of French utility Electricite de France SA.
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