Scout Solar is successful the archetypal stages of contacting landowners astir the Hazel Creek substation adjacent Granite Falls for a imaginable 153-megawatt star farm
GRANITE FALLS — A star vigor institution headquartered successful Tempe, Arizona, is exploring the anticipation of constructing a ample star workplace successful Yellow Medicine County.
Scout Solar is successful the archetypal stages of contacting landowners astir the Hazel Creek substation adjacent Granite Falls for a imaginable 153-megawatt star farm, according to accusation provided to the Yellow Medicine County Board of Commissioners connected Nov. 22.
Jolene Johnson, readying and zoning coordinator, told the commissioners that the steadfast believes it could request arsenic overmuch arsenic 1,300 to 1,500 acres for the star farm.
The institution volition beryllium gathering with landowners and section township officials to sermon its plans. It has astir 500 acres leased astatine this point, she told the commissioners.
Johnson emphasized that the task is successful its precise aboriginal stages. The institution is aiming for 2028 construction.
She said that owed to its size, the task would apt request to spell done a permitting process with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.
The star workplace would supply powerfulness to the grid by connecting to the Hazel Creek substation, which was developed arsenic portion of the CapX2020 project. The substation is portion of a transmission enactment that was built arsenic portion of a connection to assistance conscionable infrastructure needs and amended the quality to transmit energy generated by upwind farms successful occidental Minnesota and eastbound South Dakota to the Twin Cities area.
Tom Cherveny is simply a determination and outdoors newsman for the West Central Tribune.
He has been a newsman with the West Central Tribune since 1993.
Cherveny tin beryllium reached via email astatine tcherveny@wctrib.com oregon by telephone astatine 320-214-4335.
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