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The City Utility Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to sever an agreement to purchase solar power from a planned Lyon County solar farm.
The agreement, which was signed in 2018 and set to begin in 2022 once the solar farm is built, had to be terminated because of changes that would lead to excessive fees for Owensboro Municipal Utilities, OMU General Manager Kevin Frizzell said.
Although the utility will end its contract with Ashwood Solar, there will be options to purchase power from renewable sources in the future, Frizzell said. The contract allows OMU to terminate the agreement.
Under the agreement, 5% of OMUâs power annually would have come from Ashwood Solar.