Ted Turner, landowner and PV developer
Ted Turner, the country’s largest landowner, (and the creator of the 24-hour news cycle), is teaming up with Southern Co., to develop solar power projects across the U.S. Southwest.
Southern, based in Atlanta, is one of the country’s largest operator of coal-fired power plants. Like a lot of power utilities it has been investing in renewable energy to offset its carbon and green house gases emissions.
Southern will team-up with Turner’s, Turner Renewable Energy to develop photovoltaic-based solar power plants.
Why Ted Turner? He’s the country’s largest private landowner, overseeing over two million acres (809,371 hectares) of land across the Western U.S. This valuable, private real estate could streamline development process because it will, among other things, bypass Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) sentiments.