Next year, Bowling Green could be “the biggest solar city in Ohio,” according to Bill Spratley, executive director of Green Energy Ohio, thanks to a 20-megawatt (MW) project currently under construction, the Sentinel-Tribune reports. The project, which was highlighted at Green Energy Ohio’s statewide “Building Big Solar Across Ohio” conference, will have “85,000 tracking solar panels which follow the path of the sun,” according to the article. Spratley also predicted “big solar arrays will soon be very common,” The Plain Dealer reports. Congress’s extension of the 30-percent solar tax credit (see our December 22, 2015 blog post), as well as falling component costs, means “solar power has become more affordable, not only for homes and business but for power companies as well,” according to the Plain Dealer article. Utilities are increasingly adding solar generation to their lineup; American Electric Power has plans to add 400 MW of solar power to its energy production in Ohio (see our June 10, 2016 blog post). For more, read the full Sentinel-Tribune and Plain Dealer articles.
Big solar project will make Bowling Green Ohio’s solar “mecca”
