Jimmy Carter's Solar Farm is Still Keeping His Georgia Hometown Running Decades Later
Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
Jimmy Carter died in December 2024 at age 100, but a solar project tied to his decades-long push for clean energy is still working every day in Plains, Georgia.
The 10-acre solar farm built on Carter family land in 2017 continues to help power the hometown he never really left.
Carter stood in a field in Plains for the solar farm's ribbon-cutting in February 2017, watching panels begin tracking the sun on land that had once grown peanuts and soybeans. More than seven years later — and months after his death on Dec. 29, 2024 — the array is still operating at its original capacity.
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