THE POST-SIGNAL / Steve Bandy
Making up the “panel of experts” for Wednesday night’s public forum on solar farms were, from left, Andrew Carlson, Garrett Kokal and Ric Morley, representing NextEra Energy, the company developing a solar farm on Louisiana Highway 97 in Acadia Parish; Glenn Howie, Acadia Parish Police Jury legal counsel; Brett Bayard, Mader Engineering, APPJ consulting engineers; and Terrence “Terry” Chambers, director, Energy, Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Center, UL Lafayette.
Focus on solar farms
The auditorium at the LSU AgCenter was filled nearly to capacity Wednesday night when residents of the parish gathered to learn more about solar farms in general and the latest one permitted on Lou