Georgia’s latest solar plant to power 3,000 homes

Green Power EMC, which supplies energy for 28 Georgia electric membership corporations, will buy all the electricity produced by a solar project to be built near Hazlehurst in southeast Georgia.

The new solar generating plant will cover 135 acres with solar panels and will generate enough electricity to power about 3,000 homes.

“The project moves us further down the road to becoming a much more sustainable state,” said Jeff Pratt, president of Green Power.

The company will buy all the power the new plant will generate for 25 years, which will be owned and operated by Silicon Ranch, which also runs another solar plant in Social Circle, Ga.

The company also produces power from tapping gasses produced by landfills, hydroelectric and by burning biomass made of wood and waste products.

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