A Technician Servicing Photovoltaic Cells In Solar Energy Farm In Albuquerqe, Nm. (Photo By Getty Images)
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS AND WILL PERKINS
Glasgow News 1
A solar project planned for Barren County should not be affected by cuts to the Clean Energy Tax Credit.
The Wood Duck Solar project is a planned solar farm on 2,300 acres of land in the western portion of Barren County, which has split public opinion, specifically over the setbacks approved by the county planning commission in 2023.
Director of Communications at Geenex Molly Hale said Geenex, the company overseeing the project, “do[es] not anticipate the [tax credit cuts] will impact the Wood Duck Solar project.”
“Geenex remains committed to bringing this project online to help meet the nation’s unprecedented growing energy demand,” Hale wrote in an email to Glasgow News 1.
This comes as the Solar Energy Industries Association warns that Kentucky stands to lose out on thousands of jobs in manufacturing solar energy components and batteries due to the cuts to the Clean Energy Tax Credit listed in the Republican’s budget, which was often referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” by Republicans.
An analysis published in late May by the Association says Republican-led efforts to curtail or sunset tax credits would cost more than 300,000 jobs across the country and sacrifice hundreds of billions of dollars of investment through the end of the decade.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed it into law on July 4 after a razor-thin Senate vote and passage in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Electric Generation and Transmission Siting board, which is charged with the Wood Duck Solar project’s approval, is hosting a public meeting on July 15 at 5 p.m. in the Barren County Fiscal Court chambers.
This story may be updated with more specific information regarding the cuts and their potential impact, if any, on the nearby Glendale battery plants.
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