Energy fight continues in Allen County
By Trevor Hubert - thubert@limanews.com
SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP The fight over energy in Ohio continues to drag on, leaving Allen County residents at the heart of a race between a company trying to build a new solar farm and a state senate trying to shut it down.
The Birch Solar Project is one that has been at the center of an energy battle in Ohio. The proposed solar farm just southwest of Lima has been met with both fierce support and vocal opposition. Meanwhile, in the Ohio State Senate, new legislation is in the works that proponents of the project say would effectively kill it.
Amazon to purchase power generated from Birch Solar project
By Sam Shriver - sshriver@limanews.com
COLUMBUS Lightsource bp announced Tuesday that they’ve reached a deal to sell power produced from the Birch Solar farm to Amazon.
The 375-megawatt solar farm, proposed for portions of Allen and Auglaize Counties has yet to be approved by the Ohio Power Siting Board, a process that is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
According to a news release issued by Lightsource bp, the “facility is expected to deliver nearly 600,000-megawatt-hours annually of additional renewable energy for Amazon operations locally equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of about 55,000 U.S. homes.”