News from the Navy
According to the Navy’s website, the Department of the Navy (DON) announced today a signed real estate outgrant with Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, to develop a large-scale, solar generation farm at Naval Submarine Base (SUBASE) Kings Bay. The outgrant gives Georgia Power access to 258 acres of land for the development of ground-mounted solar photovoltaic panels. The project is scheduled to have a nameplate capacity of 42 MW DC, or 30 MW of alternating current. The power generated by the solar farm will be routed to Georgia Power's transmission lines, to benefit their customers. As an overall agency goal, the new array will also go into the Navy’s one-gigawatt pot of renewable energy, a goal set by the Secretary of the Navy that is supposed to be reached by the end of this year. According to the head of the state’s Public Service Commission, the new solar array could also help the Navy — and the state of Georgia — avoid another round of base closings.