Bright Mountain Solar

PROJECT SUMMARY

The Bright Mountain Solar Project (Project), is an up-to 80 megawatt (MW) solar facility mostly located on the reclaimed site of a former coal mine in Perry County, Kentucky. The Project will produce solar-powered electricity that will maximize energy production from available solar resources in order to deliver clean, renewable electricity to Kentucky customers. The Project will consist of photovoltaic panels, along with access roads, underground electric collection cables, a collection substation, inverters, a transmission line to deliver electricity to the grid, and an agricultural-style perimeter fence.

SCHEDULE

The Project Area of approximately 805 acres is comprised of multiple tracts of reclaimed mine land; however, in most instances, the project fence line would be designed to avoid steep slopes creating natural buffer between the project boundary and the project fence line. As a part of the acquisition of land and land rights, outreach was conducted to landowners and community leaders throughout the Project Area vicinity. The Project will also include an approximately 4-mile-long transmission line that connects the Facility substation to the regional electrical grid. The point of interconnection will be at the existing Bonnyman Substation.

A public information meeting was held on September 7, 2022, at West Perry Elementary School in Hazard, Kentucky. Bright Mountain Solar representatives were available to answer questions at the meeting, and a brief presentation about the project was given. Another public information meeting was held on August 22, 2023 at West Perry Elementary School during which Project representatives were available to answer questions. The Project received approval for a construction certificate from the Kentucky State Board on Electric Generation and Transmission Siting in March of 2024.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact a Bright Mountain Solar representative at info@brightmountainsolar.com, or call (815) 674-4279.

Comments about the proposed Project can be submitted on the Submit a comment page. 

Final designs will be completed and construction is anticipated to begin as early as 2024 or 2025. Construction will be completed within approximately two years, at which point Bright Mountain Solar will be placed in service.