Wind & Solar Leasing in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

Western Tallahatchie County, near Webb, is the site of Wildwood Solar, a 100 MW solar-and-storage project from NextEra Energy Resources -- a roughly $150 million conversion of Delta farmland targeting commercial operation in 2026. Because a project like this is approved by the state, not the county, it's a genuinely different due-diligence path than the zoning question covered on the county hub.

This page covers what's specific to Tallahatchie County. For the general explanation, see the national guide.

Wildwood Solar: a $150 million project converting Delta cropland near Webb

Wildwood Solar LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources -- which describes itself as the world's largest generator of renewable energy from wind and sun -- holds a long-term lease option on roughly 1,500 acres in western Tallahatchie County, on the west side of U.S. Highway 49 below Webb, with the actual solar-and-storage facility built on close to 1,000 acres of that leased ground, just south and west of Entergy's Webb substation (itself recently renovated to support the project). The site had been in longtime agricultural production before conversion began. NextEra's own project materials and Tallahatchie County's local newspaper describe the buildout as roughly a $150 million capital investment, creating 200 to 300 construction jobs over a 14-to-15-month build, with Wildwood Solar LLC targeting May 2026 for the start of commercial operations -- generating and storing solar power sold to Entergy Mississippi under a 20-year power purchase agreement.

A project of this scale -- 100 MWac of generation plus battery storage, on close to 1,000 developed acres -- represents a genuinely significant land-use conversion for a rural Delta county: land that had been growing row crops for generations is now hosting utility-scale solar infrastructure for a multi-decade lease term, under a nationally scaled developer rather than a local or regional operator.

Why this runs through the state, not county zoning -- and what that means for you

A project like Wildwood Solar is approved through the Mississippi Public Service Commission, which authorizes the certificate needed to construct and operate a utility-scale generating facility of this kind and, separately, approves the underlying power-purchase agreement with Entergy Mississippi. That's a meaningfully different regulatory path than the county-zoning question covered on the Tallahatchie County hub page, where this project's own research pass could not confirm whether the county has adopted a countywide zoning ordinance. In practice, that means a large-scale energy project here can move forward under state authority even in the absence of (or regardless of) a county zoning framework -- so a landowner near a similar future proposal should not assume county zoning status is the only, or even the primary, gate a large solar or wind project would have to clear.

For a land buyer evaluating a parcel near the Wildwood Solar site, or anywhere else in Tallahatchie County where a similar lease approach might occur, the practical due-diligence sequence is: confirm whether your specific parcel falls inside an existing lease option area (ask the current owner directly, since a lease option can predate a sale and may not be obvious from a listing); if you're the one being approached with a lease offer, get the actual agreement -- payment terms, easement scope, decommissioning-bond obligations, and the full lease term including any renewal options -- reviewed by an attorney experienced in Mississippi utility-scale solar leasing before signing; and, separately, check current Mississippi Public Service Commission dockets for the project's up-to-date status, since a May 2026 commercial-operations target reported in local coverage may have shifted by the time you're evaluating a nearby parcel.

Wind & Solar Leasing in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

Wildwood Solar: a $150 million project converting Delta cropland near Webb

Why this runs through the state, not county zoning -- and what that means for you

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