A Portland-based company is interested in leasing 2,631 acres south of Clarkston for a solar energy facility.
Aurora Solar, which is owned by Avangrid Renewables, will be in the Clarkston Heights next week to gather public input on the project. A town hall meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. next Wednesday, Feb. 9 at the Asotin County fire station at 2377 Appleside Blvd. The project is proposed for privately owned agricultural land about one mile west of Asotin and three miles southwest of Clarkston, on a plateau above the Quail Ridge Golf Course area.
The company has indicated plans to submit a conditional-use permit application this spring with a target of completing construction at the end of 2024. The Asotin solar project would provide as much as 150-megawatts of generating capacity and a battery energy storage system. Preliminary designs include a substation, operations building, access roads, fencing and transmission lines that would connect the project substation to the existing Dry Gulch substation operated by Avista.
Avangrid is involved in renewable energy development through wind and solar projects across the country. (Lewiston Tribune)
