Wind & Solar Leasing in Sequatchie County, Tennessee

What Silicon Ranch has actually built and planned near Dunlap

Silicon Ranch, the Nashville-based solar developer active across multiple Tennessee counties (including a larger, more developed project near Overton County's Monroe substation, covered on that county's own wind-solar-leasing page), has two named projects tied to the Dunlap Industrial Park area in Sequatchie County. SR Marion, LLC is a 1 MW facility at 589 Sequatchie Industrial Park that independent power-project databases list as operating since 2024 -- a small facility by utility-solar standards, but a real, completed one rather than a proposal. SR Sequatchie is a larger, 8 MW project listed as planned, with an online date reported around July 2026; as a project still in the planning or pre-construction stage as of this research pass, its final site plan, construction timeline, and any lease or easement terms affecting specific parcels should be confirmed directly rather than assumed from a project database listing alone.

Local reporting from 2024 (The Dunlap-Tribune, "Solar Ranch seeks community relationship") indicates a Silicon Ranch-affiliated project engaged directly with the community around this timeframe, consistent with a developer working through local relationships and permitting ahead of construction -- worth reading directly if you want the fullest local account of how the project was received and what commitments, if any, were discussed with the county or nearby landowners.

A separate, smaller federal grant project

Separately from the Silicon Ranch projects, Dunlap Industries, Inc. was reported in April 2025 to have received a $126,092 USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grant to help fund installation of a 258.85 kW solar array mounted on the roof of an existing building on its property. This is a commercial rooftop project rather than a ground-mount lease on open land, and it's a different scale and structure than the Silicon Ranch projects -- but it's further, independently-sourced evidence that Sequatchie County is seeing real, current solar investment activity rather than none at all, concentrated around the Dunlap industrial corridor specifically.

If you're evaluating land near the Dunlap industrial corridor

1. Confirm directly with Sequatchie County government and Silicon Ranch whether SR Sequatchie is still on its reported 2026 timeline, and whether any additional acreage near the Dunlap Industrial Park is being sought for the project.
2. If you receive a solar lease offer, have it reviewed by an attorney experienced in energy leases before signing -- confirm the payment structure, lease term, decommissioning obligations, and whether the lease would transfer with a future sale of the land.
3. Given the scale involved here (1-8 MW facilities, not several-hundred-megawatt projects), don't assume Sequatchie County's solar activity carries the same transmission-capacity or interconnection dynamics as a much larger project elsewhere in Tennessee -- ask specifically about local substation capacity for your parcel.
4. Because Sequatchie County's countywide zoning status was not confirmed with a fresh source pull on the county hub, confirm directly with the county whether a proposed solar project near your land would go through any public hearing process at all.