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Duluth Company is Low Bidder on Watertown Regional Airport Solar Project August 12, 2026 WATERTOWN, S.D. (KWAT)–Bids were opened today (Wednesday) on a solar array project proposed for Watertown Regional Airport. Five sealed bids were opened at Watertown City Hall. The low bid came from Wescom Incorporated of Duluth, Minnesota. Their base bid was $2,700,790.28. Engineer’s estimates on the base bid were very close to that figure at $2,693,820. 00 The other companies that bid on the project were Vikor of Sioux Falls ($2,893,410.15), Sentry LLC of Watertown ($3,253,253.00), Centre Electric Incorporated of Sauk Centre, Minnesota ($2,985,805.00), and Blue Horizon Energy of Plymouth, Minnesota ($3,672,698.40). Each of the five companies also submitted an alternate bid for an electric boiler that could be included in the project. Watertown Regional Airport Manager Ian Meriwether says the low bid will be sent to the Federal Aviation Administration today for their consideration. If approved, the Federal Government would pay for 95 percent of the project’s cost, with the state and city of Watertown splitting the other five percent. The project would consist of several rows of large solar panels above the airport parking lot. The 260 kilowatts of power produced would be enough to cover the airport terminal’s electricity usage throughout a typical day.