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Newnan Utilities started receiving solar energy this year via Pineview Solar Farm in Wilcox County.
“Pineview Solar, the eight megawatts that we’ve been talking about for many years, is complete, and we are getting energy,” said Alexis Brooks, director of Electrical Operations and Human Resources for Newnan Utilities, told the Board of Commissioners at their meeting on Friday.
The project was broached to Newnan Utilities by Municipal Electric Association of Georgia, from whom the city purchases wholesale power, Brooks said. MEAG helped Newnan Utilities forecast its future needs and determined that this project might be a good fit, she said.
Pineview will be producing about 8 percent of the city’s power, said Jeff Phillips, general manager of Newnan Utilities. Newnan Utilities is investing in renewable energy as a means of diversifying its fuel sources, he said. Currently, those include nuclear-, hydro-, solar- and natural gas-generated power.
“The coal plants are beginning to be phased out, and the solar allowed us to replace some of that fuel,” Phillips said.
Some of the larger companies in the city are keenly aware of their carbon footprint and trying to minimize their impact, Brooks said. They will ask what Newnan Utilities is doing to increase its share of renewable energy, she said.
But it all has to make sense financially in order to keep energy affordable for local residents, Brooks said.
“Sometimes it can be cost prohibitive,” she said. “So you’ve got to factor all that in too.”
According to Winter 2026 rates, the city ranks at 49 out of the 94 electric providers in the state as far as its electric rates.
A lot of factors determine rates including the size of the system, the number of miles of system, the capital investments and reinvestments into the system, Phillips said.
MEAG broke ground on the solar farm in 2024 and 22 of its members will now receive power from the site, according to a statement on the wholesaler’s website.
At their meeting the commissioners voted to contribute $394,000 of its special purpose local option sales tax proceeds toward the LINC where it will cross Newnan Utilities property including Carl Park.
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