Utility-Scale Solar Projects Brighten Alabama’s Tech Recruitment Efforts

Alabama News Center | March 9, 2019 @ 5:00 am

By Jerry Underwood – Made in Alabama

Massive new utility-scale solar farm projects are poised to dramatically expand Alabama’s solar power capacity as major technology companies make their first significant investments in the state.

In the last three months alone, the Tennessee Valley Authority has announced plans for large solar installations in North Alabama tied to data centers being constructed by Google in Jackson County and Facebook in Huntsville.

The new projects build on solar capacity in Alabama that only recently came online.

Alabama Power has also helped military bases in the state by installing solar projects to help them meet their goals. Alabama Power is using all the energy from the military projects and a portion from a Chambers County project to support its renewable programs.

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