Grange Solar
Stop our office at 130 E. Lake Street, Lakeview, Ohio
Open Road Renewables is in the early stages of developing a utility-scale solar project in northern Logan County known as Grange Solar. Our locally-based development team is hard at work laying the groundwork for a best-in-class solar project that will deliver maximum benefits to the community, environment, and landowners.
Grange Solar is a proposed up-to 800 MW solar facility that if approved, could start construction in 2026. The proposed facility is sited on approximiately 4,500 to 5,000 acres of property that has been leased from area landowners. Projects like Grange Solar are permitted by a state regulatory body called the Ohio Power Siting Board, which is responsible for reviewing the siting of large scale energy facilities and associated infrastructure around the state. Grange Solar expects to submit an application to the Ohio Power Siting Board in mid-2024.
Open Road has a unique approach to solar development and robust experience in Ohio. Our team has been developing projects in Ohio since 2014. We have learned a lot along the way - designing best-in-class projects with the input of farmers, neighbors, agricultural organizations, local officials, state agencies, and regulators. We carefully site and design each project to fit and maximize benefits to the surrounding community.
It is natural for members of the community to have questions or concerns about solar and a company that they do not know. Our goal is to ensure that the community realizes the long term-term benefits of solar and that process begins by providing detailed, accurate answers to those questions and concerns.
Our team is ready to meet with all interested and/or concerned community members. We are happy to meet at your home, our local office or around town, chat by phone or zoom, or at one of the many events we attend each month in Logan County.
Open Road, and by extension the Grange Solar Project, are not associated with the other projects under development in the County.
Get In Touch Or Schedule A Meeting With Our Team!
Email: grange@openroadrenewables.com
Website: www.grangesolarproject.com
Phone: 937-633-0224
Our Approach and Commitments
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Open Road project design is guided by a set of minimum setbacks, meaning that setbacks will always be greater than these minimum guidelines.
At least 300’ from a neighboring residence to the project fence
At least 50’ from neighboring property line to project fence
At least 50’ from the edge of the public road right-of-way to project fence
At least 500’ from electrical inverters to any neighboring residence
Setbacks areas between the project fence and property lines/roads will be maintained by the project and will typically be occupied by landscaping.
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Open Road commits to using agricultural-style fencing (typically 7’ high) and no barbed wire around solar arrays. This kind of fencing (typically woven wire square with wood or metal posts) is wildlife friendly.
The one exception to this commitment is the several acres occupied by the electrical substation which are required by law to have chain link with barbed wire.
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The project commits to installing and maintaining landscaping along any project border within 1,500’ of a residence. Landscaping buffers consist of native or adapted shrubs, trees, and pollinator species in one or more rows along the project fence.
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Open Road commits to installing pollinator and beneficial plant species across at least 70% of the fenced area of the project. Compared to a seasonally disturbed agricultural field, the fenced array area will provide beneficial habitat and forage for area birds and wildlife.