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Georgia Power buys 99MW in two Georgia solar projects

Decatur County scores two big solar projects.
When will Lowndes County get a move on in solar?
How about some projects like this at your empty industrial parks,
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority?
Now that even Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning is bragging about renewable
energy, maybe the solar sun is shining enough for other local governments
to see it.

Southern Company PR, PRnewsWire, 20 February 2015,

Southern Company subsidiary acquires two Georgia solar projects totaling 99 megawatts,



Southern Company subsidiary Southern Power today announced the
acquisition of two photovoltaic (PV) solar projects totaling 99
megawatts (MW) in Georgia — the 80-MW

Decatur Parkway Solar
Project and the 19-MW

Decatur County Solar Project — from
Tradewind Energy, Inc.

The projects were proposed by Continue reading →

Decatur County already went from private prison to solar park

Decatur County, that’s

turning an industrial park into a solar park;
why is that county familiar?




Because it’s

the other county that thought it was getting a CCA private prison last year!

Decatur County has already moved on from that boondoggle
that would
have prisoners competing with local workers
while

not increasing local employment.
Decatur County is already well along towards a solar park that could bring

“400 hundred thousand a year in tax revenue”.
Has our Industrial Authority got anything in negotiations for a solar park?
How about our Airport Authority?
And what is Georgia Power doing to help?

-jsq

Industrial park from green grass to a green solar future: Decatur County

Our Industrial Authority is

in favor of solar business now;
what if they seeded some of

their industrial parks
with solar panels like Decatur County is doing?
They think it will make them look like a progressive county.
What do we think?

Ty Wilson wrote for WTXL 7 Dec 2012,

A solar park is coming to the Decatur County Industrial Park,



The Decatur County Industrial park will go from having green grass
to having a green future.

A Lenexa, Kansas company is building a solar farm at the Decatur
County Industrial Park.

The Decatur County Industrial park will go from having green grass
to having a green future.

Keith Lyle is the chairman of the Bainbridge Decatur Development
Authority, he says, “We are just extremely excited to have this come
for the community.”


Decatur County Solar Park in solar Megawatt context
And, it’s private investment!


Trade Winds Energy is leasing at least 100 acres to put in solar
panels at ten thousand dollars a year.

Company executives says they will invest 17 million dollars into the
project.

Lyle says, “This will add from the tax aspect a significant revenue
stream. When it is all said and done you are looking at a taxable
amount of 40 million is assets. On the project that is 400 hundred
thousand a year in tax revenue.”

Trade Wind Energy doesn’t list this project yet
(and all the projects they do list are wind projects),


but if we take a rule of thumb

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