Permit application details 5-megawatt solar projects eyed for just north of Gibson City

Ford County Chronicle · last updated October 17, 2025 – 7:42 PM

GIBSON CITY — If granted special-use permits to build and operate two 5-megawatt commercial solar farms just north of Gibson City on former Railside Golf Course property, developers expect construction to start next July and be finished before September, when the co-located solar farms would be put in operation. Both solar energy projects’ special-use permit applications were provided to the […]

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