{"id":18896,"date":"2017-08-09T16:27:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T20:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=18896"},"modified":"2017-08-09T16:27:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T20:27:22","slug":"landfill-solar-on-wetherington-lane-lowndes-county-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/landfill-solar-on-wetherington-lane-lowndes-county-georgia.html","title":{"rendered":"Landfill Solar on Wetherington Lane, Lowndes County, Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nThese 1.0 megawatts (MW) of solar panels across from the old closed Evergreen Landfill will soon feed\r\nthe new Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)\r\na short distance up the same Wetherington Road.\r\nTo get the electricity there, a power line will either have to be bored underground\r\nor put on poles overhead; that’s as yet undecided.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Solar<\/a>\r\n
\r\nPhoto: John S. Quarterman for LAKE, 25 July 2017\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAnother solar field, started a couple of weeks ago, will be on land right to the WWTP, for another 275 KW.\r\n

\r\nThis is according to\r\n\r\n\r\nWilliam “Ricky” Cornelius, Plant Superintendent at the new WWTP,\r\naka Withlacoochee WPCP.\r\nHe also said they have the same deal with Colquitt EMC I do:\r\nthey pay the EMC 10 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh) and the EMC\r\npays them 4.5 cents.\r\nSo whatever the WWTP uses directly is gravy, but if they produce\r\nmore than they use, they get a low rate from CEMC.\r\nThis is the same “avoided rate” scheme all the electric utilities\r\nin Georgia use for paying for locally-generated electric power.\r\n

\r\nAlso, on the Valdosta City Council agenda<\/a> for 5:30 PM tomorrow, Thursday, 10 August 2017:\r\n

\r\n

\r\n6. Bids, Contracts, Agreements and Expenditures\r\n
\r\na) Consideration of Easement Agreements with Georgia Power for solar arrays on Val\r\nTech Road at the old landfill near Valdosta State Prison and at the Police Department\r\nfiring range.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nOr should that say Wiregrass Technical College Highway<\/a>?\r\n

\r\nIn addition to the solar arrays Valdosta is building, there are also ones\r\n\r\nat the airport<\/a>, and at Langboard; stay tuned.\r\n

\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n

Investigative reporting costs money, for open records requests, copying, web hosting, gasoline, and cameras, and with sufficient funds we can pay students to do further research. You can donate to LAKE today<\/a>!<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n\"Solar<\/a>\r\n
Solar panels with reference dogs 30.8226119, -83.3595080<\/a><\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\"Solar<\/a>\r\n
Solar panels 30.8234175, -83.3595684<\/a><\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\"Solar<\/a>\r\n
Solar electrical equipment 30.8234029, -83.3596398<\/a><\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\"Across<\/a>\r\n
Across Wetherington Road to closed Evergreen Landfill 30.8226119, -83.3595080<\/a><\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\"Old<\/a>\r\n
Old Mount Trashmore 30.8223685, -83.3597960<\/a><\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\"Advanced<\/a>\r\n
Advanced Disposal, Evergreen Landfill, 3163 Wetherington Lane 30.8223694, -83.3597911<\/a><\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\"Closeup,<\/a>\r\n
Closeup, Advanced Disposal, Pecan Row Landfill, 2995 Wetherington Lane 30.8162757, -83.3598545<\/a><\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\"Advanced<\/a>\r\n
Advanced Disposal, Pecan Row Landfill, 2995 Wetherington Lane 30.8162757, -83.3598545<\/a><\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These 1.0 megawatts (MW) of solar panels across from the old closed Evergreen Landfill will soon feed the new Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) a short distance up the same Wetherington Road. To get the electricity there, a power line will either have to be bored underground or put on poles overhead; that’s as yet […]","protected":false},"author":3,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7585,24],"tags":[6904,9905,8701,8702,154,12,7,9904,8714,9903,6,8726,2641,9902,4139,295,1888,6257],"class_list":["post-18896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landfill-2","category-solar","tag-evergreen-landfill","tag-firing-range","tag-georgia","tag-lake","tag-landfill","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-police-department","tag-solar","tag-val-tech-road","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-valdosta-state-prison","tag-william-ricky-cornelius","tag-wiregrass-technical-college","tag-withlacoochee-wastewater-treatment-plant","tag-withlacoochee-wpcp","tag-wwtp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-4UM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18896","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18898,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18896\/revisions\/18898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}