Dontaye Carter wrote for WCTV,

Local Community Goes Solar

The Azalea City is now home to one of the largest solar arrays in Georgia. The city is hoping the solar power will provide a cleaner, greener energy source for the future.

Note “one of the largest solar arrays in Georgia” instead of

Mayor Fretti’s “the largest array in the state of Georgia”.
This is because Pete Marte of Hannah Solar had to correct what the mayor said.
But the mayor promised to make this one bigger if somebody
else leapfrogged it, so time to get cracking!

Back to the WCTV article:

The $1.4 million Wiregrass Solar project was built on two acres of land,
which will produce 350-thousand kilowatts per hour of electricity annually
for the next 30 years.

On average that will come out to about nine cents per kilowatt hour.

The city says solar is the future and on Thursday it lit the way.

Indeed!

There are 1,100 solar panels here, but organizers say the most surprising
part is it took 18 months to find financing, but it only took five days
to build.

If you’re wondering what made Valdosta such a popular spot to build the
solar arrays, the company, Hannah Solar says it was the attraction of
the Wiregrass Biomass plant and…

“The second is the sun. We get some incredible sun down here in Valdosta
and it’s a longer solar day because we’re farther south,” said Hannah
Solar CEO Pete Marte.

Funny how the biomass plant has taken even longer to not
find financing, and still
is nowhere near even starting building,
if it ever gets there.
Expanding the solar array

as the mayor said we would
sounds a lot more practical.

-jsq