County commissioners approve solar facility

RBC | At a public hearing July 9, the Rio Blanco County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) granted approval to Piceance Creek Solar LLC for utility-scale solar powered generation of electricity. Piceance Creek Solar had applied for permits allowing development of a four megawatt solar electricity generating facility off County Road 83 in the southeast sector of the Piceance Basin on what was previously Shell Oil Company property. Cypress Creek Renewables will be the solar…