The approval by county commissioners of new rules restricting solar farms around the city of Wichita, Kansas just killed a planned Invenergy solar farm.
Sedgwick County Commissioners voted this week in support of new rules to include prohibiting solar farms in “urban growth areas,” a move that killed a 103 MW project first proposed in 2019. Invenergy proposed a 750-acre Chisholm Trail Solar Energy Center between the cities of Maize and Colwich whose mayors opposed the project. Invenergy had already signed leasing agreements on land between the two cities but since it sits within a designated urban growth area, the project is nullified.
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