BrightNight is aiming to build on leased private property, 99% of which is zoned as Exclusive Farm Use. Residents have shown mixed reactions to its proposal, leading one farmer, Connie Lee, to create the organization Save Juniper Flat.

KLICKITAT CO. — Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is proposing a 1,200-megawatt (MW) battery energy storage system (BESS) at the former…

“We’ve had people open our closures,” said Public Works Director Jeff Hunter, “and drive across the bridges. And because our people removed the barricades and drove across the bridges, the county has now assumed any liability for the last two bridges we’ve done.”

The hearing centered on the Deschutes Solar and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facility, a roughly 14,000-acre proposal located about 7.5 miles southwest of Maupin, largely on land zoned for exclusive farm use.