State OKs Saddleback plans for $8 million solar farm, new mid-mountain lodge

SUN JOURNAL • January 12, 2021

Weighing financial impacts against visual ones, the Land Use Planning Commission on Wednesday cleared the way for Saddleback Mountain Ski Resort to start planning a new midmountain lodge and $8 million solar farm. The proposed 30-acre solar array will sit on about 50 cleared acres in the northwest corner of the 6,350-acre property, according to an application pending with LUPC. It’s near a Central Maine Power transmission line, three miles from the Appalachian Trail and will produce a surplus of energy for the resort.