A long-awaited solar farm is under construction at the University of Illinois.
The 21-acre farm will be built on open land on the far south side of the Urbana-Champaign campus.
It will eventually provide 2% of the campus' power.
Associate director of sustainability at UI Facilities and Services Morgan Johnston says the first panels will go up in mid-September with the facility generating power before Christmas.
The farm is being built in partnership with Phoenix Solar of San Ramon, California.
The university will pay the company $15.5 million over 10 years to run the solar farm and then take it over.
The solar farm's construction was initially supposed to be built in 2013.