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109 views Source: Oregon Department of Energy has issued a Project Order to EDP Renewables for its proposed Blue Marmot solar facility in Lakeview; the company is currently reviewing the Project Order and plans to submit a preliminary application for site certificate in early spring 2021. The proposed facility would generate 50 megawatts (MW) on 2,332 acres of land. The facility would be five sites, with collector lines to a proposed substation that would then transfer the electricity to an existing substation operated by Pacific Power. After EDP Renewables submitted a Notice of Intent on Oct. 27, 2020, the public comment period for the project began. A virtual public meeting was held on ....
Filling the Void Photo: Jason E. Kaplan Marion Weatherford at his wheat and wind farm on the Columbia plateau The growth of wind and solar industries brings a critical source of revenue and jobs to rural counties, and the occasional dustup over land use. Driving south on Highway 19 from Arlington on the Columbia River, the road climbs steadily through rolling hills. After only a few miles, the road reaches the Columbia plateau, where dryland wheat farms stretch as far as the eye can see. Marion Weatherford owns a wheat farm on the plateau close to where his family has been farming for five generations. “Our great-great-grandfather came over on the Oregon Trail when he was 16, in 1860,” Weatherford says. In 1881 he started farming wheat. ....