PVREA, Silicon Ranch Corp. partner on solar-power farm in Kersey

KERSEY — Construction is underway on a 3.5-megawatt solar-power farm in the town of Kersey in Weld County.

The 30-acre Platte Valley Solar Farm at the northwest corner of County Road 55 and Latham Street will have more than 40,000 solar panels and will help serve more than 600 Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association customers.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Silicon Ranch Corp. will fund, own, operate and maintain the solar-power farm. PVREA, a rural electric cooperative serving more than 40,000 homes and businesses across three counties in Northern Colorado, will receive all the energy the solar-power farm produces…