By Wesley Muller
Louisiana Illuminator
A new utility-scale solar facility was unveiled Monday in Washington Parish and is expected to go online in the next few days to generate enough electricity to power roughly 11,500 homes.
D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments, one of the nation’s largest independent solar power producers, unveiled its 50-megawatt solar facility on about 447 acres of private land just outside Franklinton. The Sunlight Road Solar facility boasts new technology in the form of all-terrain, sun-tracking sensors developed by the Oakland, Calif.-based Nevados.