MCLB-Albany solar farm groundbreaking

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April 28, 2016

Dirt was lifted on Thursday morning at Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany during groundbreaking for a solar farm expected to further expand the installation’s energy efficiency efforts. (Staff Photo: Jennifer Parks)

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Officials break ground Thursday on a solar farm on Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany that will span 150 acres.

Assistant Secretary to the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment Dennis McGinn came ready to shovel some dirt at the groundbreaking for a solar farm at Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany on Thursday. (Staff Photo: Jennifer Parks)

Kenneth Coleman, senior vice president of marketing for Georgia Power, helped break ground Thursday on a solar farm on Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany, which is expected to be ready for operation early next year. (Staff Photo: Jennifer Parks)

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Legislation aimed at ensuring the huge number of solar farms springing up across rural Georgia don’t become permanent eyesores has cleared the state House of Representatives.

Georgia Public Service Commission Vice Chair Lauren “Bubba” McDonald Jr. was among those in attendance for the groundbreaking for a solar farm aboard Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany that could power up to 5,000 homes. (Staff Photo: Jennifer Parks)

Attendees at the groundbreaking for a solar farm at Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany were, from left, Marine Corps Logistics Command Commanding General Maj. Gen. Craig Crenshaw, Marine Corps Deputy Commandant of Installations and Logistics Lt. Gen. Michael Dana, State Rep. Darrel Ealum, Georgia Public Service Commission Vice Chair Lauren McDonald, Assistant Secretary to the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment Dennis McGinn and MCLB-Albany Commanding Officer Col. James Carroll. (Special Photo)

Lt. Gen. Michael Dana, Marine Corps deputy commandant for installations and logistics, was among those present for the groundbreaking of a solar farm being built by Georgia Power at Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany. (Staff Photo: Jennifer Parks)

Several partners are involved in the energy-efficiency efforts ongoing at Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany. The most recent endeavor is a solar farm that is expected to to take up about 150 acres. (Staff Photo: Jennifer Parks)

Col. James Carroll, commanding officer of Marine Corps Logistics Base-Albany, gives remarks at the groundbreaking of a solar farm under construction on the base. (Staff Photo: Jennifer Parks)

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