The 240-acre overgrown former landfill will become a beneficial urban solar farm, creating hundreds of jobs for the Sunnyside community and enough energy to power up to 10,000 homes. The facility is expected to be fully operational by July 2023.The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has granted permit approval for the long-discussed Sunnyside Solar Farm project, the office of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said Friday.
“Once completed, it will be the largest urban solar farm in the nation built on a landfill,” Turner said. “We'll take an estimated 120 million pounds of carbon out of the air each year, create jobs and transform a historically under-served and under-resourced community by bringing private investment to the predominantly black and brown, marginalized and disenfranchised community in Houston.”
BQ Energy is developing the facility. The Sunnyside Solar Farm project results from the public-private partnership structured by the Mayor’s Offices of Resilience and Sustainability, Complete Communities, and Economic Development and the ongoing collaboration between the private sector, the community, and city and state agencies.Green, whose congressional district includes the Sunnyside neighborhood, secured $750,000 in workforce development grants to help with the solar farm project.
The farm will create more than 100 construction and green job opportunities, according to the mayor’s office. The $750,000 grant will be used to train and place 175 Houstonians through Houston Community College and Lone Star College, creating opportunities for students from Sunnyside and other Complete Communities neighborhoods for solar and solar-related jobs by September 2023.
The masks are TOO FUNNY!!!!!
None of this Money will go to Sunnyside Residents but to the Politicians who brokered the deal and don't live, and would never live, in Sunnyside. Enjoy the view of thousands of Solar Panels and heavy construction traffic.