Days after Tallahassee Reports published a story noting that the vendor for the City of Tallahassee’s solar farm was a foreign company, questions from the Utility Citizen Advisory Committee (UCAC) prompted Reese Goad to address the procurement process for the project. Reese Goad is currently the Acting City Manager for the City of Tallahassee. The procurement […]
The Tallahassee Democrat has published an opinion piece by Acting City of Tallahassee City Manager Reese Goad that contradicts facts in the public record about the foreign ownership of the City of Tallahassee’s soon to be completed solar farm. Goad states in the opinion piece that Origis – the developer and owner of the solar […]
The City of Tallahassee’s new solar project may be good for the environment, but evidence indicates it will not be good for the local economy. A spokesman for the City of Tallahassee told Tallahassee Reports that the city’s new solar project will not create any local recurring jobs. A spokesman for Origis Energy, the Belgium […]
Tallahassee Reports has learned that the City of Tallahassee’s solar project is being financed and constructed by a private Belgium company that is registered in Cyprus, an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean. This means that payments made by city residents, who have chosen to buy electricity from the solar project, will be leaving Tallahassee to […]