{"id":202448,"date":"2024-12-26T11:44:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/officials-approve-states-most-powerful-energy-project-to-date-and-it-could-transform-us-energy-production"},"modified":"2024-12-26T11:44:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:44:37","slug":"officials-approve-states-most-powerful-energy-project-to-date-and-it-could-transform-us-energy-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/officials-approve-states-most-powerful-energy-project-to-date-and-it-could-transform-us-energy-production","title":{"rendered":"Officials approve state\u2019s most powerful energy project to date \u2014 and it could transform US energy production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NeVLIA1RX1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The great state of Wisconsin is about to get enough clean energy to power 200,000 homes, as the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin has approved a new solar farm that will be the most powerful in the state, <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/12\/16\/wisconsin-most-powerful-solar-farm-just-got-approved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Electrek reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vista Sands Solar Farm, which will be located on 8,500 acres of private farmland in Portage County that is being leased from its owners, is being developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/vistasandssolar.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doral Renewables LLC<\/a>, a Philadelphia-based company.<\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to take around two years to complete. It will cost $1 billion and generate around 500 jobs during construction and 50 permanent positions once the farm is open for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-business\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"72\" title=\"Green business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">business<\/a>, per the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great state of Wisconsin is about to get enough clean energy to power 200,000 homes, as the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin has approved a new solar farm that will be the most powerful in the state, Electrek reported. Vista Sands Solar Farm, which will be located on 8,500 acres of private farmland in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1506,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-food","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}