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Glynn County staff brief commissioners on unsolicited proposal to lease Cape Road Landfill for solar farm
Summary
County staff presented an initial proposal from Inman Solar to lease about 70 acres of the decommissioned Cape Road Landfill for a 30-year solar lease that would sell power to Georgia Power; commissioners were asked to authorize negotiations but no formal lease was approved at the July 15 work session.
Assistant County Manager Danny Smith told the Glynn County Commission on July 15 that the county had received an unsolicited proposal from Inman Solar to lease roughly 70 acres of the county-owned Cape Road Landfill for a solar installation. "We received a proposal from Inman Solar, and it's just an initial proposal to possibly lease our landfill, our Cape Road Landfill, for solar use," Smith said during the work session. Smith said the Cape Road site is a decommissioned landfill of about 150 acres that remains under a monitoring requirement until 2027, and that the company had proposed using the capped, non‑forested portion of the property. He described the proposal as a 30‑year lease with…
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