Plans for a solar farm in Scott Twp. will move forward. Supervisors last week approved a conditional use application for a ground-mounted solar energy facility with about 5,200 panels. Denver-based developer Pivot Energy and Donald Race plan to build the 2.7-megawatt AC facility on 10 acres of a property on Carbondale Road near the South Abington Twp. border. The plans call for the panels to be mounted on a single-axis tracker, with the project set back 100 feet from the parcel’s boundaries, surrounded by an 8-foot-high fence and trees. Race, along with Elizabeth, Cheryl and Barbara Race, has owned the property since 1995. The array would produce about 4,370 MWh annually, enough for more than 300 residences, Gordon Woodcock, Pivot’s…
