The Louisiana Public Service Commission greenlit plans last week for a near-$300 million solar farm that would be owned and operated by Entergy in Iberville Parish.
The site, named Cypress Harvest Solar, would sit on roughly 1600 acres of former sugarcane fields about 5 miles southwest of Plaquemine, between Milly Plantation and Derick Road, near Belleview Drive.
It has the capacity to generate 200 megawatts of clean energy, enough to power about 30,000 Louisiana homes a year…