A solar farm developer and its contractor are set to appeal a decision that left them on the hook for $135.5 million in jury-awarded compensatory and punitive damages stemming from a large project in Georgia that adjacent landowners claim led to erosion runoff on their property.
The jury in the Macon, Ga.-based federal district court awarded the damages on April 28 to Shaun and Aimee Harris, owners of the 1,630-acre H&L Farms in Lumpkin, south of Columbus, from Nashville-based Silicon Ranch Corp. and contractor Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives and its unit, IEA Constructors LLC.