Solar energy project proposed for Navajo-Hopi land

From left, Scott Prosuch, senior program manager at Tetra Tech; Roman Bitsuie, senior program specialist with the Navajo-Hopi Land Commission Office; and Robert Kennedy, senior systems engineer at Tetra Tech; look on Tuesday at a map from the Navajo Land Department of Paragon Ranch during a visit to site one of the proposed Paragon-Bisti Renewable Energy Ranch off N.M. Highway 371. / Augusta Liddic/The Daily Times
From left, Scott Prosuch, senior program manager at Tetra Tech; Roman Bitsuie, senior program specialist with the Navajo-Hopi Land Commission Office; and Robert Kennedy, senior systems engineer at Tetra Tech; look on Tuesday at a map from the Navajo Land Department of Paragon Ranch during a visit to site one of the proposed Paragon-Bisti Renewable Energy Ranch off N.M. Highway 371. / Augusta Liddic/The Daily Times

By Noel Lyn Smith The Daily Times

Farmington — Right now, there’s not much to see on the land east of N.M. Highway 371 near the Bisti Wilderness Area.

But a group of Navajo Nation officials and business representatives who gathered on the arid land Tuesday see potential.

Specifically, they envision rows and rows of solar panels. As they consulted a map from the Navajo Land Department outlining the boundaries of Paragon Ranch, they discussed areas that could house the panels.

Paragon Ranch is 22,000 acres of land in the Eastern Agency set aside under the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act to benefit people relocated because of the Navajo-Hopi land dispute.

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