This is your weekly update, which takes a quick look at the week ahead and some developments that El Paso Matters is following. New Solar Farm: El Paso Electric is building a 10-megawatt community solar farm in San Elizario in far East El Paso County that the utility’s customers will be able subscribe to and receive solar energy. Customers would pay about $15 per kilowatt of capacity for which they subscribe and then they would receive a credit on their monthly bill based on how much power their portion of the solar farm produces. El Paso Electric sees community solar farms as a way to compete with rooftop solar, which can be costly for individual homeowners and isn’t available for all homeowners or renters. Customers with their own rooftop solar systems own the asset and typically receive a bigger reduction in their monthly power bill than a customer subscribed to community solar. EPE is spending $23 million to develop the 66-acre solar farm. Once it’s completed near the end of this year, another 5,000 customers will be able to subscribe to solar energy from the site. And it’s not the last solar farm the utility is building in the Lower Valley: El Paso Electric next month plans to start constructing a larger, 150-megawatt solar array in Fabens.