\nDave Williams wrote for the Atlanta Business Chronicle Thursday,\n\nGeorgia Power tees up next phase of solar plant,<\/a>\n \nThe first phase of the plant went on line last March and is\noperating with a capacity of 350 kilowatts.\n \nConstruction of the second phase, due to be completed in about two\nmonths, will bring the plant up to 700 kilowatts, on its way to a\nfull capacity of 1 megawatt of electricity. One megawatt of solar\nphotovoltaic panels produces enough energy to power about 135 homes.\n<\/blockquote>\nLet’s see some local leadership!\n \n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dalton, the place that had a solar plant bigger and earlier than Valdosta’s. Did Mayor Fretti’s brag about this location being competitive go out with him? Crawford Powell is still a County Commissioner. The Industrial Authority is still supposed to be bringing in industry. The Chamber of Commerce is still supposed to be promoting jobs. […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,263,18,21,23,24,178,332],"tags":[3131,8701,8708,2793,7,8714,3132,6,8749,8765],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-dublin-ga","category-georgia-power","category-planning","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-vlcia","category-vlcoc","tag-dalton","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-power","tag-leadership","tag-lowndes-county","tag-solar","tag-united-renewable-energy","tag-valdosta","tag-vlcia","tag-vlcoc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-it","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","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=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
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<\/a>\nGeorgia Power Co. will begin construction soon on a project that\nwill double the generating capacity of the utility’s solar plant in\nDalton, Ga., the company announced Thursday.\n