WEBB — Wildwood Solar LLC is targeting May 2026 for the initiation of commercial operations at its 100-megawatt solar electric generating and storage facility in western Tallahatchie County.
Site preparation for the solar farm has been underway for several months at a location on the west side of U.S. Highway 49 below Webb that is being converted from longtime agricultural production.
The construction site, encompassing some 1,000 acres, is south and west of Entergy's Webb substation that has itself undergone renovations within the past year.
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Wildwood will be selling all of its electric generation output to Entergy Mississippi LLC under a power purchase agreement with a term of 20 years.
Solar panels — thousands of them — will capture the sun’s energy, which is then converted into direct current electricity and passed through inverters to produce alternating current.
That electricity will then be available to transmit to the Entergy power grid via transmission lines at the site.
The 100,000 watts of electricity to be generated by Wildwood Solar are said to be enough to power approximately 20,000 homes.
The construction project will entail a capital investment of roughly $150 million and will create 200 to 300 jobs during its 14- to 15-month construction phase. Florida-based Moss is the general contractor for the solar project.
Despite a partial ad valorem tax exemption granted by Tallahatchie County, Board of Supervisors attorney Tommy Reynolds said the solar farm will pay up to $25 million in local ad valorem taxes over 30 years.
The company’s own initial January 2023 petition filing with the Mississippi Public Service Commission estimated that Wildwood Solar LLC would generate $12 million in local tax revenues over the 20-year life of the project.
Wildwood Solar LLC is a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, which bills itself as the world’s largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and the sun.
NextEra Energy Resources is a subsidiary of Juno Beach, Florida-based NextEra Energy, which transmits, distributes and sells electric power to retail and wholesale customers throughout North America, including 49 states in the United States and four Canadian provinces.
In a Jan. 24, 2025, press release, NextEra Energy, a Fortune 200 company, reported adjusted fourth-quarter 2024 earnings of $1.095 billion, up from $1.067 billion in the last quarter of 2023, and adjusted full-year 2024 earnings of $7.063 billion, up from $6.441 billion in 2023.
NextEra Energy Resources reported adjusted fourth-quarter 2024 earnings of $446 million, up from $361 million in the final quarter of 2023. It reported adjusted full-year 2024 earnings of $3.118 billion, compared to $2.757 billion for the full year of 2023.
