Articles About solar energy

• A bright future for Village Solar

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 9, 2024

  

  Launched in 2020 by village resident and former Antioch College student Alex Rolland, with the mission to provide sustainable and reliable solar power to area residents and businesses, Village Solar has grown significantly since its inception.

• Miami Township Trustees— Locals sound off on solar possibilities

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 9, 2022

  

  At its Monday, Nov. 7, regular meeting, the Miami Township Board of Trustees held a public hearing to listen to community feedback on large solar power installations from residents of the township, which includes Yellow Springs.

• Revisiting the Kingwood Solar project

  By Carol SimmonsMay 20, 2022

  

  Thousands of pages of testimony, motions, exhibits and other related documents have been filed in the ongoing effort by Texas-based Vesper Energy to build and operate a large-scale solar power field that encompasses land in Miami, Xenia and Cedarville townships.

• Township solar project divides neighbors

  By Megan BachmanJuly 25, 2019

  

  In the countryside southeast of Yellow Springs, an area of rolling farmland dotted with homes and barns may someday be the site of a massive solar array.

• Village Council — Solar producers challenge cap

  By Megan BachmanJuly 11, 2019

  

  Should the Village raise its cap on the amount of solar energy it buys from local residences? Village Council broached that question at its July 1 regular meeting.

• Village Council —  Expand voting to noncitizens?

  By Megan BachmanJuly 4, 2019

  

  Local 16- and 17-year olds and noncitizen legal residents could vote in local elections as early as next year.

• Village to raise pool rates

  By Megan BachmanJune 20, 2019

  

  The first rate hike in a decade at Gaunt Park Pool will likely take effect later this summer, with most of the increase to be paid by out-of-town visitors and day pass users.

• Village Council considers solar project

  By Matt MindeJanuary 15, 2015

  

  At their Jan. 5 meeting, Village Council members heard robust support for a proposed community solar project.

• Antioch College Farm sprouts power

  By Megan BachmanOctober 9, 2014

  

  A one-megawatt solar farm recently popped up at Antioch College along Corry Street as part of the college’s plan to become carbon neutral.

• Village Council denies appeal to stop solar array

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 31, 2014

  

  At its July 21 meeting, Village Council voted unanimously to deny an appeal of Planning Commission’s June 23 decision to allow a solar array at Antioch College. The decision means that the college solar project is allowed to go forward.