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Morning Sky Power outlines 398 MW Buffalo Grass Solar project south of Matheson
Summary
Morning Sky Power presented a proposed 398 MW solar project with 200 MW of battery storage, preliminary site maps, a target online date of 2030 and plans to seek a 10-41 permit and Special Use by Review from Elbert County. Developers said panels would cover about 3,800 acres and that the application is still being prepared.
Morning Sky Power outlined the Buffalo Grass Solar proposal in a community meeting hosted in Elbert County, saying the project would be a roughly 398-megawatt photovoltaic facility paired with about 200 megawatts of lithium-ion battery energy storage.
"We are proposing a solar project called Buffalo Grass Solar. It is a about 400 megawatt solar project," Andrew Krieger, the development lead, said during the presentation. He described a preliminary footprint and emphasized the layout is not final: "There will not be panels in all of those areas. The panels are in smaller portions." The team displayed visual simulations and said panels would cover approximately 3,800 acres and that the project lifespan is roughly 30 years.
Krieger said the project is in the early stages and that Morning Sky is preparing a 10-41 permit application and a Special Use by Review for Elbert County. He described a public process that includes county review, public notice and hearings before the county planning commission and the Board of County Commissioners. Jennifer Jones, Elbert County community and development services director, told the meeting that documents submitted to the county become public records and can be requested via open-records channels.
Developers said they aim to begin construction to reach commercial operation around 2030, with an estimated 24 months of construction. The company also emphasized coordination with transmission owner Tri-State on the 230 kV Lincoln–Midway line that crosses the project area and noted the project would connect into that line through a required switching station.
