Wichita County OKs reinvestment zone for proposed Nymphaea solar and storage project after public hearing

Wichita County Commissioners Court voted 5-0 on Feb. 21 to create Reinvestment Zone No. 1 for a proposed utility-scale solar and battery storage project developed by Nymphaea Solar LLC.

County Judge Johnson opened a public hearing on the project, and developers and local officials spoke before the court acted to authorize the county judge to sign a resolution creating the reinvestment zone.

The developers’ team, which included Evan Horn of Ernst & Young and Cameron Labac of Samsung, described the project as a large-scale photovoltaic facility with battery energy storage. "This is a utility-scale solar and battery energy storage project," Horn said, adding that developers estimate the solar component at about 20 megawatts and the storage at about 60 megawatts, with the storage duration still under consideration. Developers told the court the installation footprint would be on the order of hundreds of acres — their comments variously referenced "about a thousand acres" and "right around 800 acres" — and that peak investment in…