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Commissioners authorize negotiations with EDP and note OCRA grant paperwork
Summary
Blackford County authorized beginning negotiations with EDP on a renewable project and was told to sign documents for an OCRA grant; the board asked for cost estimates to review one wind and one solar project.
Warren Brown, director of the Blackford County Economic Development Corporation, told commissioners on Jan. 20 that staff should begin negotiations with EDP on a renewable-energy project. Commissioner Dan Borgenheimer moved to start negotiations with EDP; Commissioner Laura Coons seconded and the motion passed 3-0.
Brown also said commissioners must sign documents to pursue an OCRA grant and requested that staff obtain a cost estimate from Butler, Fairman & Seufert to review documents related to one wind project and one solar project. During public comment Deb Grider asked about moving forward with EDP; President John Lancaster answered that the county could not pursue both companies simultaneously and said they would start with RWE and then move on to EDP.
