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More Solar In Works In Central California

Blackwell Corners on Hwy 46

Blackwell Corners on Hwy 46

Highway 46 travelers will see a new solar project on the western edge of Kern County with plans filed by Blackwell Solar Park, LLC. The cattle rancher plans a 20MW solar generating facility about 1 mile east of the intersection of State Route (SR) 46 and SR-33, near the community of Lost Hills. An EIR is underway in Kern County.

Spanish company IMMODO who developed about 42 MW of solar projects in Tulare County has filed for a 3MW project in Kings County going through the conditional use permit process. The facility is on the edge of Hanford at 11375 9and 3/4 Ave.

On a mega-scale, San Francisco-based Recurrent Energy has just filed to begin an EIR process as of October 16 in Fresno County for a 400MW solar farm. The 3875 acre project is in Westlands Water District and is named Tranquility Solar. If things go right there will be plenty of activity in Tranquility.

The project was originally proposed in 2011 but the company pulled the application in 2012. Now its back and Recurrent, who has a good record of building what they propose – could begin construction in about a year.The non-prime, dry farm land is 5 miles east of Hwy 5 straddling Hwy 33 at Manning Ave. At 400MW this would be by far the largest Valley solar farm around – on the order of the big Carrizo Plain, SLO County projects being built. The Tranquillity project could boast as many as 2.5 million PV panels and be worth perhaps three quarters of a billion dollars.

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