EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) – Orion Renewable Energy is seeking to make northern Vanderburgh County the home for a new solar farm, and many residents are not too thrilled.
“I live on top of a hill, about a mile away from this, and I guarantee I’m going to see every one of these panels every day I wake up to drink my coffee in the morning,” one resident said. “Not something I want in my neighborhood, not something anyone wants in the neighborhood back here.”
The Blue Grass Creek Solar Project by Orion is a proposed 600 megawatt solar facility costing $150 million near Interstate 69 and Baseline Road, just north of the Vanderburgh County Industrial Park in Scott Township…