A Massachusetts renewable power firm is proposing to place photo voltaic panels on Bent Mountain.
New Leaf Energy Inc. proposed building of an power facility at 9150 Reed Road that might start producing electrical energy in 2027. The website is a former apple orchard — now principally open for pasture— owned by Glenn Reed.
The facility, described as small, would generate 3 megawatts or 4 megawatts of power, the proposal says.
Glenn Reeds owns the previous apple orchard in Roanoke County the place New Leaf Energy Inc.
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Reed mentioned Wednesday that it’s the lease fee for the usage of his land that pursuits him. “Clean power, too,” Reed mentioned.
New Leaf, performing with Reed’s approval, utilized for a particular use allow on March 8. Roanoke County has scheduled its planning fee to contemplate the undertaking on June 4. The fee often makes a advice for or in opposition to a proposal and ship it to the county board of supervisors. That board has the ultimate phrase and can take into account it on June 25.
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The website at 9150 Reed Road within the Bent Mountain neighborhood of Roanoke County is the place New Leaf Energy Inc. proposes to construct a photo voltaic power facility.
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County officers posted on their planning web site a 422-page data package deal, which describes conceptual plans for the location about 1,500 ft west of Bent Mountain Road. The panels might be seen from neighboring houses and the road, however “enhanced” landscaping to “decrease the visible influence of the viewshed” is deliberate, the proposal mentioned.
The undertaking consists of 12,400 panels, based on the proposal.
A consultant of New Leaf, based mostly in Lowell, Massachusetts, wrote that “the undertaking will stay a rural property and we’ll produce whereas not establishing everlasting buildings, public utilities and public roads.â€
New Leaf mentioned that the potential presence of threats or endangered species could require motion as set out in US Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Mountain Valley Pipeline was put in in the identical normal space as Bent Mountain because of the opposition of some landowners.
Blacksburg packaging tools firm growth
ESS Technologies in Blacksburg plans to broaden because it strikes to Christiansburg, the corporate mentioned Wednesday.
ESS began in Blacksburg 31 years in the past and supplies product packaging line design and equipment. It plans to spend $1.6 million and rent 27 folks in reference to the transfer. It was not instantly recognized how many individuals had been employed by ESS.
The Pembroke and Blacksburg operations might be consolidated at a leased website on Scattergood Drive, based on CEO Michael Odom of Pacteon Group, which owns ESS.Â
ESS has 55 folks.
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