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The Yuma Daily Sun reports Yuma County supervisors has approved a permit necessary for a 20-megawatt solar power plant to be built in San Luis.
Solar Electric Solutions of California wants to build the facility on 175 acres — most of it state-owned land, on a county island or a patch of unincorporated land surrounded by city limits.
Roughly 89,000 ground-mounted, six-foot-tall photovoltaic panels would produce electricity to be sent to the nearby Arizona Public Service Baja substation for distribution.
The Yuma City council split over the solar field being an impediment to development as San Luis grows, while the supervisors not only agreed San Luis should be able to dictate its growth but were skeptical about the plant providing significant economic impact since government incentives can substantially reduce solar plants’ tax burdens.
The life expectancy of the project is 30 years, and when the solar facility is decommissioned, the company is to restore the state land to Arizona State Land Department specifications.
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