The city of
Paris buys energy from a solar farm located in town, and the power accounts for 5% to 10% of all the electricity that the town uses. It s using what God gave us to power our community, Mayor
Daniel Rogers said.
Paris uses comes from hydroelectricity and solar energy. I just think that s amazing, Rogers said.
The city has been using solar energy since about July with Today s Power, a subsidiary of
Arkansas Electric Cooperative, said
Today s Power spent approximately
$250,000 building the site, which included replacing old power line poles from the city, Rogers said.
Today s Power owns, operates, and maintains the farm. The company also has to pay property taxes on the land.
It will take weeks or maybe even months for customers of Oklahoma’s power providers to find out how their bills over the next five to 10 years will be impacted by the providers’ February storm costs.
Here’s why:
• Total costs are still being calculated. Power providers don’t yet know exactly how much they spent to acquire the natural gas they needed to keep generating stations that use that fuel operating. They also don’t yet know how much additional power they purchased from the grid to keep energy flowing across the grid during the storm cost them.
• Each power provider is different. While Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co., Public Service Co.
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