Solar farm near Burdett in the final stages of its application process

By Collin Gallant on February 2, 2019.

Medicine Hat News

Among a flurry of news about potential solar power projects in southeast Alberta, a solar farm proposed near Burdett by a partnership that includes Enbridge is making final application to regulators.

The Solar 1 generating station, a joint project of the Alberta-based major energy company and Morgan Solar, a Toronto-based facility developer, would be located on privately owned land about four kilometres northwest of the hamlet of Burdett, and have a top capacity of 9.3 megawatts.

Applications filed on Jan. 30 ask the Alberta Utilities Commission to approve a 400-metre overhead power line connecting the facility to a substation then to larger distribution network of Fortis Alberta.

A timeline on Morgan Solar’s website states it plans to commence construction of the field in the first half of 2019.

This is the third time large solar facility in Cypress County or the County of Forty Mile have made major news recently.

In December, Aura Renewables entered final application phases on its proposed Empress Solar Park.

A federal grant of $15 million was won by C&B Alberta, which is planning to build a 91,000-panel array about 10 kilometres west of Suffield at a total cost of about $49 million.

Another developer, Solar Krafte, has asked for an extension to complete its planned 74.2 megawatt station north of Enchant until October. The company states in documents that it is working to finalize storm water management plans and a road agreement with the Municipal district of Taber.

More than 20 applications for connection to Fortis’s southern Alberta network by proposed solar power generating facilities are being considered by the AUC.

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