{"id":5309,"date":"2024-05-07T15:44:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:44:34","slug":"county-officials-greenlight-massive-solar-farm-project-after-prolonged-deliberation-start-walking-the-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/?p=5309","title":{"rendered":"County officials greenlight massive solar farm project after prolonged deliberation: &#8216;Start walking the walk&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After spending almost 10 hours listening to local residents&#8217; thoughts on the matter, officials greenlit a solar farm project in Douglas County, Kansas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lawrence Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lawrencekstimes.com\/2024\/04\/13\/dgcocomm-vote-ks-sky-energy-center\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that county commissioners unanimously approved the 159-megawatt solar farm, called the Kansas Sky Energy Center, north of Lawrence. Evergy, the owner and operator receiving the project permit, will rely on Savion LLC for the design.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Savion and Evergy are partnering with The Nature Conservancy to develop and administer agrivoltaics under and beside the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/solar-panels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">solar panels<\/a>. This will include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-home\/best-vegetables-to-grow-for-beginners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vegetables<\/a>, grazing and native\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-home\/how-to-make-your-yard-a-friendlier-place-for-pollinators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pollinator-friendly plants<\/a>,&#8221; he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lawrencekstimes.com\/2024\/04\/11\/kramar-letter-sky-energy-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;&#8230; The panels also protect crops from intense rain and hail.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending almost 10 hours listening to local residents&#8217; thoughts on the matter, officials greenlit a solar farm project in Douglas County, Kansas.&nbsp; The Lawrence Times&nbsp;reported&nbsp;that county commissioners unanimously approved the 159-megawatt solar farm, called the Kansas Sky Energy Center, north of Lawrence. Evergy, the owner and operator receiving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,48,59],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-climate","tag-renewableenergy","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5311,"href":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions\/5311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearelaramie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}