Twin Falls County completes draft on wind, solar projects [Video]

Twin Falls County is catching up to potential wind and solar energy projects that could one day find a home on private land.

It’s been a year in the making, and the draft ordinance county commissioners and planning and zoning officials have completed is another step toward giving the county adequate guidance when it comes to deciding permitting of alternative energy projects.

It will be a change in the right direction, commissioners say, considering the 120-megawatt Jackpot Solar project near Rogerson, which began construction in April 2022 and started providing power at the end of that year, was approved as planning and zoning members used guidance from the county’s hydroelectric codes, because there …