In Tallahatchie County, farming the sun soon may become as commonplace as farming the land.
NextEra Energy Resources, a subsidiary of Florida-based NextEra Energy, hopes to construct a solar energy farm on some 1,000 acres of land in western Tallahatchie County — if it can first receive commitments for purchase of the electricity that would be generated there.
Thursday morning, during a recessed meeting in Charleston, the Tallahatchie County Board of Supervisors approved a package of incentives, including tax exemptions, to help pave the way for the green-energy development.
During the 2022 session of the Mississippi…