The State Energy Conservation Office announced Friday that Lampasas has been awarded a $2 million grant to construct a solar energy facility.

A power-generating site -- which will use photovoltaic panels to generate as much as 4 percent of the electricity the city consumes, City Manager Michael Stoldt said at a recent Lampasas City Council meeting -- will be built at a former city dump off Old Georgetown Road.

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