This article cannot fully describe our electric grid, it would take a sizable technical book few of you would care to read, however, some believe they can improve the grid without having even a cursory understanding of what it is our how it works. Proponents of grid scale solar tend to be in that group, not the solar developers who build these massive installations, they … [Read more...]
Do You Know How Many Trees Are Going to be Removed?
It's always in the fine print. While looking over the drawings of the project layout, which is 35 pages long and each page is large with a lot of detail, I noticed a lot of areas covered in a crosshatch pattern. Looking closer, I saw small call-outs pointing to each of those areas and when I enlarged the page enough to make them readable, it would say something like "existing … [Read more...]
Description and Details of the Wattsburg Solar Project
Before we can have a meaningful discussion on the merits of this project, it's probably best to describe exactly what is being proposed so everyone is on the same page. The details here are those provided by Wilson Solar LLC. Who is building this project? Wilson Solar LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birch Creek Development of St. Louis, Missouri, is planning a facility on … [Read more...]