From GoUpState
By Nathaniel Axtell
A 13-acre solar farm on Laycock Road is nearly complete and soon will feed up to 2 megawatts of renewable energy to the power grid. But two other Henderson County solar farms sought by the same green energy company have died on the vine due to governmental and utility costs.
The estimated $5 million Laycock Road project was one of several solar farms that Asheville-based Innovative Solar Systems had proposed here since Henderson County commissioners approved a text amendment allowing them in April 2012.
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