The Board approved rezoning roughly 1,227± acres east of San Manuel for the Ore Town Solar Project — an approximately 145-MW photovoltaic facility paired with a 145-MW battery energy storage system — adopting a PAD overlay with stipulations. Planning and Zoning had recommended approval.

Pinal County supervisors approved Ordinance No. 2026-PZ-PD-009-26 to apply a Planned Area Development overlay to ±1,263.1 acres for a photovoltaic facility and BESS, adopting 20 stipulations and reading an amended Stipulation #17 into the record after a 7–1 Planning & Zoning recommendation.

The Board approved Ordinance No. 2026-PZ-009-26 on Sept. 2 to rezone ±1,263.1 acres south of Eloy from General Rural to I-3 Industrial to allow a utility-scale photovoltaic facility, substation and battery energy storage system, with one stipulation and a prior 7–1 Planning & Zoning recommendation.

After a full‑day public hearing with hundreds of written submissions and more than a dozen in‑person speakers both for and against it, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Feb. 18 to deny the Silver King Energy Center land‑use applications that would have rezoned roughly 8,100 acres for utility‑scale solar, battery storage and a proposed thermal plant.