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Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Solar Project Community Info Session 8/28/2025

Thursday, August 28, 2025
Wilton Community Center
9717 Colony Road, Wilton CA 95693
6:00 PM doors open – 6:15 PM presentation

Join the Coyote Creek Solar Project for a community meeting focused on the Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Solar Project (CCAR) and its intersection with the Prairie City Vehicular Recreation Area (PCSVRA).

You can read the letter from ECOS about this project here.

Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Solar Project

This interactive event will include:

  • A comprehensive overview of the project, including infrastructure planned within the PCSVRA and anticipated temporary closures of trails and the go-kart track.
  • Enhancements proposed by the project to elevate the overall PCSVRA user experience.
  • An update on the project timeline and key milestones
  • A live Q&A session with project representatives—covering topics such as water use, noise and dust impacts, and other frequently asked questions.
  • A call-in option for those who are unable to attend in person

Can’t attend in person?
Call-in details will be provided ahead of the event.
Hosted for the Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Community. All OHV riders, users, local residents, and interested stakeholders are encouraged to attend.

For more information, contact:
coyotecreeksolarproject.com
Michelle Smira
(916) 610-3235 or
michelle[at]mmsstrategies[dot]com

Solar Panels Over Parking and Sheep

Photo by Sean Nealon, Oregon State University

New French law will blanket parking lots with solar panels

French parking lots could soon generate as much electricity as 10 nuclear power plants, after a law is expected to win final passage on Tuesday requiring canopies of solar panels to be built atop all substantial lots in the country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/02/06/france-solar-parking-lots/

Combining solar panels and lamb grazing increases land productivity, study finds

Land productivity could be greatly increased by combining sheep grazing and solar energy production on the same land, according to new research by Oregon State University scientists.

https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/combining-solar-panels-and-lamb-grazing-increases-land-productivity-study-finds

Wrangling over renewables: Counties push back on Newsom administration usurping local control

“It’s a humongous task,” said Siva Gunda, vice chair of the California Energy Commission. “We’ve had 100 years to build the grid the way it is today and we’re redoing it in the next 20 years. At least we have a plan. We are digging ourselves out of a hole.”

https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/08/renewable-energy-california-counties/

Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Ranch Project

On February 17, 2022, the Environmental Council of Sacramento, Habitat 2020, the Sacramento Group of the Sierra Club, and Sacramento Audubon offered the comments with respect to the preparation of the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Ranch Project.

Below is an excerpt.

Our concern is that Blue Oak Woodland is an imperiled habitat in California, and it was recently highlighted as such in the draft “Pathways to 30 x 30” document. Such an important and imperiled habitat would not have necessarily been a top pick for constructing such a facility if the habitat values involved had been considered in the context of other potential locations in our region.  We acknowledge that there are limited options for the placement of such a facility, but we are not aware of a comprehensive analysis and compendium of suitable locations for solar farms prepared by SMUD for the region, so there is no resource to compare and contrast the Coyote Creek project. 

Click here to read the letter in full.

On February 21, 2022, the Environmental Council of Sacramento, Habitat 2020, the Sacramento Group of the Sierra Club, and Sacramento Audubon sent an addendum to our previously sent Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Solar Project NOP comment letter.

Click here to read the addendum letter.