Clean energy industry making waves in Adams County

With the recent announcement from Avista that it has agreed to purchase power from the proposed Rattlesnake Flat Wind Project near Lind, coupled with the Adams-Neilson Solar Farm in Lind that went online late last year, there is no doubt that economic development in eastern Adams County is changing.

So how did the renewable energy industry end up finding its way to Adams County, and are there more projects in the works? And how might that affect--if at all--agriculture, the county's prime industry?

Adams-Neilson Solar Farm

In the case of the 28-megawatt Adams-Neilson Solar Farm, the county gov...