After holding off for 14 months, Ada Area Chamber of Commerce held its first in-person membership meeting on April 21.

As expected, there was much on the agenda. Several of those announcements involve programming returning to the Ada scene this summer. Those events will be covered this week in greater detail on the Icon.

Erin Saal, associate renewable development staff member for Invenergy, updated chamber members on the Hardin Solar Development project in the McGuffey area.

“The project is a solar power generation facility of up to 300 megawatts (MW), targeted to begin operating in 2023," she said.

"Solar technology uses the sun to deliver energy and is now one of the lowest-cost energy sources available,” she said.

Adding that, “The Hardin Solar III Energy Center is an opportunity to boost the local economy of Hardin County and create jobs, all while generating clean, American-made energy to meet Ohio's growing electricity demand.”

Invenergy will sell the energy produced from the solar center to Dominion Energy.

Invenergy is a privately-held developer and operator of sustainable energy. Based in the U.S., has  developed more than 170 projects, totalling over 27,700 megawatts ranging from wind, solar natural gas and advanced energy storage projects.

Click here to visit the Hardin project’s website.

The map below should three phases of the project.
• Blue area - phase I
• Light green area - phase II
• Orange area - proposed phase III
• Unshaded area inside blue lines involves no development