The completed solar farm at Indianapolis International Airport will cover more than 150 acres with more than 76,000 solar panels, generating more than 31 million kilowatt hours.
Johnson Melloh Solutions is the company in charge of building the new section of the solar farm – they also built the original 44,000 panels.
Kurt Schneider, a partner with Johnson Melloh, says the 36,000 new solar panels are unique because they're outfitted with a tracking system – as the sun travels across the sky, the panels move with it.
"The cost of the tracking systems became much more efficient and effective, and the production that would be provided of renewable energy would be more. Financially it would pay for itself," Schneider said.
Johnson Melloh is currently putting the panels in place, and Schneider says the system should be up and running by the end of the year.
He says it will predominately power the airport and a nearby FedEx facility.