LESLIE TWP. — A proposal for a nearly 900-acre, $100 million solar farm in the southwest corner of Ingham County is now being reviewed by state officials.
Leslie Township Supervisor Dallas Henney expects to hear by the end of the year whether the Michigan Public Service Commission will OK Chicago-based Ranger Power’s Acceleration Solar Project. A company official has said the solar farm would produce 90 megawatts and mean a $100 million investment in Ingham County.
Henney’s guessing the project will be approved since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed 2023 legislation that streamlined the zoning of wind and solar projects by shifting the approval, in certain circumstances, away from local zoning boards to the Michigan Public Service Commission. Board members are appointed by Whitmer…