It was standing room only as close to 100 people packed a county annex courtroom in Lonoke County on Tuesday (Aug. 5) to hear plans for a $600 million, 6,000-acre, 300-megawatt solar energy farm near Keo. The project would be located about 90% in Lonoke County and 10% in Pulaski County.
The power it would supply could serve 70,000 residential homes, or two times the size of North Little Rock’s population. There will be about 300 jobs at the height of construction and three full-time jobs to manage the project once it is operational.
“I’m grateful for all the feedback we got today. It’s always great to see members of the community come out and engage with us on projects. We’ll take in all their comments as we move forward,” said Eve Shanahan, senior analyst for renewable development for Invenergy, a Chicago-based company that would oversee construction and manage the solar farm known as the Downstream Solar Energy…
