An 80-megawatt solar farm in southwest Montana should be coming online by month’s end.
An 1,100-acre solar project slated for Baker secured a contract Wednesday to sell power to Basin Electric Power Cooperative and its Montana members.
Boise-based Clēnera told Montana Lee Newspapers recently that the company’s 600-acre solar array is in its final phase before launching within weeks.
The array located along U.S. Interstate 15 near Dillon is the second Montana project of this size and doubles the amount of commercial solar production in the state.
“They have to run a bunch of tests to be sure everything is working right, but it should be producing by the end of June or July,” said Krista West, of Clēnera.
“Developing on federal land, there’s seven years that