{"id":2168,"date":"2011-04-18T17:39:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T21:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/1-megawatt-solar-plant-opens-in-blairsville-ga.html"},"modified":"2011-04-18T17:39:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T21:39:19","slug":"1-megawatt-solar-plant-opens-in-blairsville-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/1-megawatt-solar-plant-opens-in-blairsville-ga.html","title":{"rendered":"1 megawatt solar plant opens in Blairsville, GA"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gainesvilletimes.com\/archives\/46889\/\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"213\"\nheight=\"160\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/media.morristechnology.com\/mediafilesvr\/upload\/gainesville\/article\/2011\/03\/03\/0304solar.jpg\"><\/a>\nTasha Biggers writes in the Gainesville Times that\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gainesvilletimes.com\/archives\/46889\/\">\nGeorgia\u2019s largest private solar farm provides electricity to Blairsville homes:\nSite produces 1 megawatt per year<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nIf you live in Blairsville, part of your home&#8217;s electricity may be\nprovided by solar energy, thanks to a recently opened solar farm on Ed\nKing Road.\n<p>\nThe farm, built and maintained by ESA Renewables, a company headquartered\nin Castellon, Spain, is privately owned and takes up 5 acres, making it\nthe largest privately held ground-mounted solar farm in Georgia&#8230;.\n<p>\nThe Blairsville site produces 1 megawatt per year.\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s enough to provide power for 122 houses, according to Javier Latre,\ndirector of engineering for ESA Renewables.\n<\/blockquote>\nThe buyer for the power is the TVA, which says:\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;In the last year, it&#8217;s gone from 5 megawatts total to just over 65\nmegawatts,&#8221; he said, adding that the TVA had to &#8220;pause&#8221; the program for\ntwo weeks last June to catch up with program applications.\n<\/blockquote>\nSounds like a growth industry to me.\n<p>\nBlairsville is 300 miles north of here, with less sun.\nYet they just built a solar array three times the size of the\none <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/mayor-fretti-at-wiregrass-solar-llc-groundbreaking.html\">\nrecently installed in Valdosta<\/a>\nbut <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/commissioning-ceremony-cancelled-for-wiregrass-solar-plant.html\">\nnot yet connected by Georgia Power.<\/a>\n<p>\nMaybe it takes\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/we-have-plenty-of-sunshine-here-dr-serr\u00e1n-pag\u00e1n-vcc-24-march-2011.html\">\nsomebody from Spain<\/a>\nto get solar moving.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tasha Biggers writes in the Gainesville Times that Georgia\u2019s largest private solar farm provides electricity to Blairsville homes: Site produces 1 megawatt per year If you live in Blairsville, part of your home&#8217;s electricity may be provided by solar energy, thanks to a recently opened solar farm on Ed King Road. 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