More solar along Trans-Canada power alley

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on May 7, 2022.

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Another major solar farm is proposed for a site near the Trans-Canada Highway in southeast Alberta, making it potentially the fifth directly along the route between Strathmore and Suffield.

The Tilley Solar Project would be built on one quarter-section of private land northeast of the village in the County of Newell, according to an application posted this week with the Alberta Utilities Commission.

It is now subject to a public participation process that will conclude May 31.

Developer, Calgary-based Acestes Power, has previously built a similarly sized 23-megawatt facility comprising about 100,000 rack-mounted panels near Coaldale.

The Tilley site is about one mile north of the Trans-Canada Highway on Range Road 124.

If it moves ahead it will join other electrical facilities visible from Highway 1.

Capital Power began operations at its Strathmore solar facility this winter, directly southeast of that town.

Brooks Solar was built in 2018 but has been expanded onto two adjoining quarter-sections on the eastern outskirts of that city.

Suffield Solar, 10 kilometres west of the hamlet in Cypress County, was completed in late 2020 and is now owned by BluEarth Renewables.

Greengate Power plans to build the 120-megawatt Lathom project near Bassano by 2023.

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