[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "KC company eyes old Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant near De Soto [KS] as site for new solar farm"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

KC company eyes old Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant near De Soto as site for new solar farm


by Roxie Hammill
Shawnee Mission Post (KS)
November 22, 2021 

A Kansas City-based solar energy company is exploring the idea of developing a solar farm on the defunct Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in De Soto.

Savion, LLC, a privately-held company that specializes in utility-scale solar power and storage, has begun reaching out to landowners and local officials in an attempt to determine if the idea is feasible, according to Savion’s media spokesperson Kelly Cooper. But because the idea is still in its infancy, the company is not ready to share more details.

However, a company official did recently weigh in with county planning commissioners who are trying to write regulations for what would be a new industry for the county.

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For the entire article, see
https://shawneemissionpost.com/2021/11/22/sunflower-army-ammunition-plant-solar-farm-136919/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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