Fayetteville hopes to build new solar array to power municipal facilities, save on energy costs

A sign stands Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, outside a large solar panel array north of the West Side Wastewater Treatment Facility in Fayetteville. The city is hoping to build a new solar array to offset municipal energy costs before the state's new net metering rules take effect at the end of September. Visit nwaonline.com/photo for today's photo gallery.
(NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe)
A sign stands Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, outside a large solar panel array north of the West Side Wastewater Treatment Facility in Fayetteville. The city is hoping to build a new solar array to offset municipal energy costs before the state's new net metering rules take effect at the end of September. Visit nwaonline.com/photo for today's photo gallery. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe)


FAYETTEVILLE -- The city wants an agreement in place to build a third solar array before a new state law takes effect that would render the project financially unappealing.

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