{"id":19159,"date":"2017-09-21T07:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=19159"},"modified":"2017-09-21T07:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:26:34","slug":"solar-panels-at-langboard-brooks-county-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/solar-panels-at-langboard-brooks-county-ga.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar panels at Langboard, Brooks County, GA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nWhat needs no testing or cooling water, no eminent domain, no fuel,\r\nand emits only clean electricity?\r\nSolar panels, like those built by\r\nSolAmerica Energy behind the Langboard plant in Brooks County, Georgia.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<a title=\"Google map,\" href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=19156\">\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" id=\"19158\" width=\"600\" height=\"548\" alt=\"Google map,\" src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/59177ea3a95d02753510a4efe60e976d.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Langboard+OSB\/@30.7862253,-83.4766861,1589m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88ee7c5a887213ff:0x6d3b02f01987c37!8m2!3d30.7862303!4d-83.4811699\">\r\nBehind Langboard OSB<\/a>, on Langboard Lane, off US 84 just west of the Withlacoochee River in Lowndes County, Georgia.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<H4>\r\nDrone Video of Langdale Solar Tracker in Brooks County, Georgia\r\n<\/H4><!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nSolar FlexRack, Vimeo, 5 January 2017,\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/198248169\">Drone Video of Langdale Solar Tracker in Brooks County, Georgia<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user28963693\">Solar FlexRack<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/198248169\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<br>\r\nThis solar tracker project consists of 55 racks and\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/solarflexrack.com\/products\/tracker\/\">\r\nSolar FlexRack&#8217;s TDP Turnkey Solar Tracker Solution<\/a>.\r\nThe solar array is located in\r\nBrooks County, Georgia and has SolAmerica Energy as the projects&#8217;\r\nEPC.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<H4>One of seven south Georgia SolAmerica solar projects<\/H4>\r\n<p>\r\nUnless there&#8217;s another SolAmerica project in Brooks County already,\r\nthis project must be one of these seven.\r\n<p>\r\nSolar Server, via Business Wire, 7 September 2017,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/solarserver\/20170907006668\/en\/SolAmerica-Energy-Completes-7-South-Georgia-Projects\/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-W8j9Oi60kFTomUxRDB8jhDaJAAzhiWrvvp64Ysm6v6irCOi9QzgjCezTS3Nw_X6kJUrpSBm-Hav1w-UkdSlG3n-LqQ9daqDg2iAkV-zf8a1RzAC4_rGwOLNoA4bcgbFNw==\">\r\nSolAmerica Energy Completes 7 South Georgia Projects for Georgia Power&#8217;s Advanced Solar Initiative<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nSolAmerica Energy announced today that it has successfully completed\r\nseven new solar projects, totaling 4.6 megawatts (MW) AC, across\r\nseveral communities in south Georgia. These ground-mounted projects,\r\nwith panels manufactured by Hanwha and REC, were developed and\r\nconstructed to participate in Georgia Power&#8217;s Advanced Solar\r\nInitiative. Georgia Power will purchase the power and the renewable\r\nenergy credits generated by the projects under long-term agreements.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nSolAmerica president, George Mori, stated, &ldquo;We are excited to\r\ncomplete this latest round of projects with the Georgia Power team.\r\nThese distributed solar assets will continue to deliver benefits to\r\nour landowner partners and their local communities for many years,\r\nwhile supplying energy to Georgia Power customers.&rdquo; Mori\r\nadded, &ldquo;For these reasons, we are big believers in the value\r\nchain of distributed solar generation.&rdquo;\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThe completed projects include:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Baldwin County Solar Farm I in Milledgeville: 769 kW\r\n<li>Baldwin County Solar Farm II in Milledgeville: 769 kW\r\n<li>Brooks County Solar Farm in Quitman: 769 kW\r\n<li>Evans County Solar Farm in Claxton: 385 kW\r\n<li>Macon County Solar Farm in Oglethorpe: 769 kW\r\n<li>Randolph County Solar Farm in Shellman: 385 kW\r\n<li>Troup County Solar Farm in LaGrange: 769 kW\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>\r\nFor more information on this news release, please contact Scott\r\nGarrett at 770-826-7366 or scott@garrettgroup.com.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<H4>\r\nAbout SolAmerica Energy:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.SolAmericaEnergy.com\">\r\nwww.SolAmericaEnergy.com<\/a>\r\n<\/H4>\r\n<p>\r\nSolAmerica Energy develops, finances, and constructs commercial and\r\nutility-scale solar photovoltaic projects. Based in Atlanta,\r\nGeorgia, SolAmerica Energy has built solar projects for many of the\r\nleading companies in the Southeast and has developed projects for\r\nnationally recognized investors and owner-operators.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<H4>Solar for Landowners<\/H4>\r\n<p>\r\nThe land on which those solar panels sit behind Langboard is owned by The Langdale Company.\r\nIt&#8217;s a lease arrangement, and you may be able to make such an arrangement, as well.\r\n<p>\r\nThere is a Georgia Power electric substation on GA 33, the Moultrie Road,\r\nhalf way between Sabal Trail&#8217;s mess on Coffee Road at Okapilco Creek\r\nand Quitman.\r\nLandowners along that road could probably make a deal with Georgia Power.\r\nLandowners on Colquitt EMC could talk to them: that&#8217;s the utility I&#8217;m on,\r\nwith my 15 kilowatts of solar panels.\r\n<p>\r\nSolAmerica is far from the only solar company building in south Georgia,\r\nbut it has\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solamericaenergy.com\/landowners\/\">\r\na convenient landowner interest form you can fill out<\/a>.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-style:italic\">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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/donate\">donate to LAKE today<\/a>!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What needs no testing or cooling water, no eminent domain, no fuel, and emits only clean electricity? Solar panels, like those built by SolAmerica Energy behind the Langboard plant in Brooks County, Georgia. Behind Langboard OSB, on Langboard Lane, off US 84 just west of the Withlacoochee River in Lowndes County, Georgia. 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