Regulators urge scaling back solar project due to concerns over prairie-chickens

An environmental review recommends a solar developer scale back its plans for the roughly $2 billion Vista Sands Solar project in Portage County to protect Wisconsin’s greater prairie-chicken population.

Vista Sands Solar, LLC, an affiliate of Doral Renewables, wants to build a solar facility that would produce around 1,300 megawatts of power with around 300 megawatts of battery storage. The facility is more than four times larger than the Badger Hollow Solar farm, the biggest solar project currently online in Wisconsin...
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Ken Notes: These projects are just getting bigger and bigger...