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TUNICA, Miss. (AP) The state of Mississippi has approved its first wind turbine facility to generate electricity in the Mississippi Delta, the Mississippi Public Service Commission announced Wednesday.
The Mississippi Public Service on Tuesday approved a solar and battery storage facility in Walnut Grove, in Leake County.
The small utility-scale solar facility, which will be owned and operated by Mississippi Power Co., will produce 1.285 megawatts of clean, carbon free solar energy.
It will also have battery storage capacity of 5.14 megawatt-hours of electricity for those same customers and could support a future micro grid for the Walnut Grove area which would protect the town from outages on the larger grid. The project represents a total investment of $7.8 million in Leake County and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2021.