Shelbyville, Indiana

a 1,200-acre solar farm in the community; it should generate 200 Megawatts. They will be selling power on the grid because we’re starting to see more and more manufacturers wanting that renewable energy source avail- ability.” DeBaun notes that the city works very closely with the county to share the costs on many of these projects. The good news is that Shelbyville has a revenue agreement with the Indiana Grand Racing & Casino operation located there, a thoroughbred horse track and a casino, and it uses those ‘racino’ dollars for incentives: “We’re using them for infrastructure incentives; we’ve used them to pay for roads, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, upgrades to lift stations, substation improvements for electrici- ty, and gas lines. We’ve used them to buy down the cost of land when we’ve needed to.”