Pinal supervisors move controversial solar project forward
by Kelly Fisher | Casa Grande Dispatch
NextEra Energy Resources Project Manager Jess Melin presenting to the Board of Supervisors.
After about two hours of discussion — interrupted by more than an hour’s recess — the Pinal County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday approved what could be the first photovoltaic solar and battery-storage hybrid plant in the country.
But the project distressed many nearby residents and left some still discontent with the outcome.
NextEra Energy Resources, a Florida-based, Fortune 200 energy hub, set what’s now known as the Pinal Central Energy Center in motion in 2014, and the project gained traction last year.
