WACO, Texas (KWTX) – SB energy’s Orion Solar Belt is made up of three solar farms that have a total of 1.3 million solar modules and took over 25 million dollars to complete and will power Google’s data centers in Dallas.
Jaime Carlson with SB Energy says the plant is over 900 megawatts, spans across five thousand acres and aims to improve the local economy.
“We are working with 27 different landowners, renting acres from them and bringing them new economic revenue streams that they can use on their land, and in some cases, we are actually getting to share land,” Carlson said.
Buckholts ISD’s principal, Alushka Driska, was approached by SB officials when they wanted to rent some of her land, and says they were very communicative and transparent during the process.
“As soon as we knew that they were coming in they reached out to us immediately our project managers were amazing they make a point to visit the families at their home, everything was a kitchen table conversation,” Driska said.
