SENECA — Plans to build a novel solar electric project on pasture land in Bear Valley have been put on indefinite hold as the cost to send the power to a utility in Idaho has made the project unfeasible.
Last year, Grant County rancher Jack Southworth partnered with Portland-based Rute Foundation Systems on the project, which was designed to allow large-scale solar energy production and cattle ranching on the same land for the first time in Oregon.
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