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Cloudy skies. Low 11F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Updated: January 2, 2026 @ 3:12 am
Photo from New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
Photo from New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
CANTON — Developers of a proposed 5-megawatt commercial solar farm on Jingleville Road are scheduled to meet with the Canton Town Planning Board on Monday.
The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. in the board room of Canton’s municipal building at 60 Main St. It will also be streamed over Zoom, but in view-only mode.
In April, Connecticut-based energy developer Lodestar Energy presented plans to the town planning board for a 5-megawatt solar array to be built on 23 acres of land near Jingleville Road.
Before the April meeting, Lodestar had acquired 82 acres of land in the area to build a solar farm.
The company owns around 40 solar farms, primarily in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and New York, and operates three solar arrays in the Southern Tier region.
In April, a project developer told town officials that the company chose Canton partly because solar development has been booming in New York for nearly a decade, and there are few remaining spaces available to connect new solar projects to the state’s solar grid.
“With National Grid, there’s really only a couple of stations that have open capacity left in the state, and Canton is one of them,” Adam Rowles said.
At that initial meeting, Rowles said the company was still in the early stages of development, but said the proposed location could be ideal due to the natural tree cover that already screens much of the land.
The Lodestar project would be situated near the 240-megawatt Rich Road Solar development that’s now being planned. While construction on that project was initially expected to begin this year, rising prices and other factors have pushed its start date back to at least 2027.
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