{"id":1001,"date":"2012-03-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/where-could-we-put-utility-solar-in-south-georgia.html"},"modified":"2012-03-19T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:00:00","slug":"where-could-we-put-utility-solar-in-south-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/where-could-we-put-utility-solar-in-south-georgia.html","title":{"rendered":"Where could we put utility solar in south Georgia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where could we find<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/03\/30-megawatt-solar-plant-opens-near-austin.html\"><br \/>\n380 acres for a 30 Megawatt solar plant<\/a> in south Georgia?<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a clue from Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\nCitizen Carol wrote for Texas Vox 6 January 2012,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/texasvox.org\/2012\/01\/06\/austin-energy-drought-proofs-its-energy-with-new-webberville-solar-project\/\"><br \/>\nAustin Energy drought proofs its energy with new Webberville Solar Project<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/texasvox.org\/2012\/01\/06\/austin-energy-drought-proofs-its-energy-with-new-webberville-solar-project\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/texasvox.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/ae-webberville-with-austin-skyline-on-horizon.jpg?w=300&#038;h=196\"><\/a><br \/>\nA number of years ago, the City of Austin purchased this land<br \/>\nplanning to install a new coal-fired power plant. When those plans<br \/>\nfell through, a landfill was proposed for the site that now boasts<br \/>\n280 acres of solar panels with a view of downtown Austin along its<br \/>\nhorizon.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/124469840901543\/\"><br \/>\non the proposed coal plant site in Ben Hill County?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, it doesn&#8217;t have to be that big, or all in one place.<br \/>\nHow about on top of a landfill?<br \/>\nHow about on the cotton fields<br \/>\nnext to Valdosta&#8217;s Sallas Mahone Elementary School?<br \/>\nEnergy to air condition the school instead of drifting pesticides,<br \/>\nand profit to the landowner!<br \/>\nHow about at the airport?<br \/>\nAt the mall parking lot?<br \/>\nOn top of the new county palace?<br \/>\nOn the warehouses in Hahira?<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where could we find 380 acres for a 30 Megawatt solar plant in south Georgia? Here&#8217;s a clue from Texas. Citizen Carol wrote for Texas Vox 6 January 2012, Austin Energy drought proofs its energy with new Webberville Solar Project A number of years ago, the City of Austin purchased this land planning to install [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,202,216,40,14,15,8,2,602,19,88,21,22,23,24,1106],"tags":[2880,2355,236,1249,2330,8701,8791,1622,154,7,2876,2878,8713,2877,8714,237,238,6,2879],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-agriculture","category-coal","category-community","category-economy","category-education","category-georgia","category-government","category-hahira","category-history","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-planning","category-politics","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-vboe","tag-acres","tag-airport","tag-austin","tag-austin-energy","tag-cotton","tag-georgia","tag-hahira","tag-land","tag-landfill","tag-lowndes-county","tag-mall","tag-parking","tag-renewable-energy","tag-school","tag-solar","tag-texas","tag-travis-county","tag-valdosta","tag-warehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}