Plans For Solar Farm in Grant County

A company recently filed construction plans for a 200-megawatt solar farm on 2,000 acres between Potosi and Lancaster. Reports say the construction application filed by Grant County Solar LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, follows requests this year for similar facilities to be built in other locations in the state.  Construction would begin in late 2021 and be completed in late 2023, with the facility projected to go into service in December 2023. The project would create about 250 to 350 construction jobs. Once built, the facility would employ three full-time workers. NextEra had searched Grant County for two years for a site and chose the location because of its level terrain, relative lack of wooded cover and proximity to transmission lines.