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Commissioners report talks with solar developers, brownfield sites under review
Summary
Delaware County commissioners said they have had recent discussions with multiple solar developers and are exploring use of brownfield properties in and near city limits; staff are working with the assessor’s office on tax-treatment questions.
Delaware County commissioners said on Aug. 4 they have been in talks with multiple renewable-energy developers about projects that could use brownfield properties in and near Muncie, and that county staff are working to clarify tax implications for land under and adjacent to proposed solar panels. The discussion came as the board took up a previously tabled solar moratorium item.
The commissioners described contacts with firms identified in public remarks as Hawthorne (the Albany project, near the drag strip), Geronimo Energy (formerly National Grid Renewables, referenced as the Rorton project) and Holocene Clean Energy. Commissioners said Holocene has shown…
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