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Commercial solar farm being developed in Canton through new state siting process


CANTON — As New York pushes to meet renewable energy targets set by the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, a proposed 240-megawatt solar project in the town of Canton is forging ahead with a plan to be operational by 2025.
The first non-mandatory public meeting about the Rich Road Solar Energy Center was held at the Best Western University Inn on Thursday night as an informal open house with representatives from EDF Renewables. The company intended to host the project’s first open house last summer, but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the forum until this year.
A subsidiary of the French utility company EDF, the San Diego-based EDF Renewables has developed wind and solar projects for 35 years across North America. In New York, one large-scale EDF Renewables project is online: Lewis County’s Copenhagen Wind Farm became operational in 2018 after a 12-year planning and siting process. A dozen other EDF Renewables projects, including Canton’s pr ....

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