{"id":545,"date":"2018-05-04T08:13:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T12:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=545"},"modified":"2018-05-04T08:13:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T12:13:28","slug":"solar-advancing-in-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Solar Advancing In Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar farms keep coming  to southwest Polk County.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Polk County Planning Commission voted unanimously this week to approve a solar farm in Chicora, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/news\/20180503\/polk-planning-board-oks-teco-solar-farm-opposed-by-residents\">The Ledger<\/a> reports.\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, an additional solar farm has  been proposed for a 358-acre site owned by KMT Farm and Timber Company between U.S. 98 and <br \/>E.F. Griffin Road. It is scheduled to come to the Bartow Planning and Zoning Commission May 14. If city officials approve the project, it will be operated by Tampa Electric.\n<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest addition of solar power to Bartow.\n<\/p>\n<p>In March city officials announced an agreement with NovaSol Energy for the addition of solar power to the city&#8217;s power grid.\n<\/p>\n<p>Also in March,   city officials approved a TECO solar farm near the Peace Creek north of State Road 60.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar farms keep coming to southwest Polk County. The Polk County Planning Commission voted unanimously this week to approve a solar farm in Chicora, The Ledger reports. Meanwhile, an additional solar farm has been proposed for a 358-acre site owned by KMT Farm and Timber Company between U.S. 98 and E.F. Griffin Road. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}