TWIN FALLS, Idaho — A south-central Idaho company plans to build a solar farm to produce energy using 150,000 solar panels on 405 acres in Jerome County.
Officials with Jerome-based Mid Point Energy said they will ask the Jerome County Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday to approve a special use permit to build the solar farm south of Shoshone.
Company co-founder Tom Mikesell said the solar farm would produce enough power for 45,000 homes. The farm would be built on land owned by the company's other co-founders, Steve and Mary Marshall, of Jerome.
"This new renewable energy solar project in Jerome will be the first commercial producing solar facility in southern Idaho," Mikesell told The Times-News. "The Marshalls, as well as myself, believe that expanding southern Idaho's renewable energy sources with a Jerome solar plant will be an economic boost to this region."
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