Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association developing 8-megawatt solar project

Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association this week announced that it is working with a Tennessee company to develop an 8-megawatt solar project on two Weld County sites.

The project, which is slated to be online by the end of this year, will provide enough power to serve 1,300 households and will account for about 1.5 percent of the 1.1 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity distributed by PVREA annually.

PVREA serves about 38,000 homes and businesses in Larimer, Weld and Boulder counties.

The project requires about 35,000 solar panels and about 100 acres of undeveloped land. Part of the project will be located on about…