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Commissioners a tough audience for Box Car’s solar plans

Box Car Wind representatives presented their plan for a proposed solar wind farm between Garvin and Balaton near the Highway 14 area at Tuesday’s Lyon County Board of Commissioners meeting, but the plan was met with some resistance by commissioners.The company behind the surge in green energy production in southwest Minnesota through wind power has outlined a new project called Coneflower Solar, a solar garden on up to 1,670 acres of land in southern Lyon County.

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