Abstract

The Spotsylvania Solar Farm Project is a proposal to build a 500 megawatt solar farm in Livingston in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The project is managed by Spower with various investors such as Dominion, the University of Richmond, Microsoft, Apple, Etsy, Swiss-Re, and Akamai. However, there are many stakeholders outside of the main investment groups. These stakeholders include the citizens in Spotsylvania where the solar farm will be located, climate activists advocating for increased renewable energy usage, and local, state, and federal government representatives. Across the scale of government representatives, there have been initiatives to increase, decrease, and regulate solar power and other energy sources. This project addresses how at each scale of government solar power has been supported or opposed and the type of legislation and representatives that are supporting and opposing it.

Paper prepared for the Geography Capstone.

Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Salisbury

Document Type

Unpublished Paper

Publication Date

4-30-2019

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