County’s Municipal Planning Commission approves solar energy project

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Photo by Vulcan Advocate file photo Article content Vulcan County’s Municipal Planning Commission (MPC) has approved a development permit for a solar energy project northwest of Mossleigh. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Georgetown Solar Inc’s 230-megawatt project, as well as a battery storage component, was approved during the MPC’s Jan. 11 meeting. The planned site layout includes roughly 433,000 bifacial solar panel modules on fixed tilt racking, a battery energy storage site consisting of 84 energy storage containers for the lithium-ion phosphate batteries, 21 power conversion stations each having two inverters and a transformer, and two auxiliary transformers, reads a report. The project is located across seven…

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