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Developer updates Freeborn County on Horseshoe solar project; 200 MW PV and 200 MW battery proposed
Summary
Developers told the Freeborn County Board the Horseshoe (formerly Hayward) solar project has been resized to about 200 MW of photovoltaics with an added ~200 MW battery-storage proposal, an interconnection timetable that could finish in January 2027, and a construction window targeted for 2027–2029. The presentation raised questions about acreage and taxes.
Tracy Score of Good Stewart Consulting and Joshua Chavez, senior development manager with Revant (also referenced in the presentation as Aravon), gave the Freeborn County Board of Commissioners an update on a proposed utility-scale solar project east of Hayward.
Chavez said the project has grown from an earlier 150-megawatt proposal to a 200-megawatt photovoltaic array and that the developer plans to add roughly 200 megawatts of battery storage colocated at the project’s substation switchyard. "This does not expand the footprint at all," Chavez said, explaining the batteries would occupy about five acres…
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