NextEra solar, battery project under construction
ENID, Okla. — NextEra Energy Resources is expecting its Skeleton Creek Energy Center to be operational by the end of this year.
The energy center will encompass some 2,000 acres of solar panels and lithium batteries for storage on land spread out across an 8-square-mile area south of Enid.
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