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There are already a few large scale solar farms in the County. This one is the most recent to go online it seems. https://corporate.totalenergies.us/news/totalenergies-starts-texas-380-mw-utility-scale-solar-power-plant-battery-storage From the press release... "Located south of Houston, Texas, Myrtle has a capacity of 380 megawatts peak (MWp) of solar production and 225 MWh of co-located batteries. With 705,000 ground-mounted photovoltaic panels installed over an area equivalent to 1,800 American football fields, Myrtle produces enough green electricity to cover the equivalent consumption of 70,000 homes. 70% of Myrtle’s capacity will supply green electricity to the Company’s industrial plants in the U.S. Gulf Coast region. It is part of the Company’s “Go Green” Project, which will enable the Company to cover, by 2025, the power needs and curtail the Scope 1+2 emissions of its industrial sites in Port Arthur and La Porte in Texas, and Carville in Louisiana. The remaining 30% of Myrtle’s capacity will supply green electricity to Kilroy Realty, a publicly traded real estate company, under a 15-year corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) indexed on merchant prices. In addition to the photovoltaic installations, the solar power plant also features battery energy storage equipment to meet the need for grid stabilization. With a total capacity of 225 MWh, this storage is made of 114 high-tech Energy Storage Systems (ESS) containers designed and assembled by TotalEnergies' affiliate Saft, which develops cutting-edge industrial batteries."

https://thefacts.com/news/corps-releases-report-on-reservoir/article_a7743431-84d7-5e75-ab60-e195802039c7.html "Described in a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers public notice released this week as “located north of the existing Harris Reservoir in the city of Angleton,” the reservoir would be 1,929 acres in area and 51,000 acre-feet in volume due to its 30-foot storage depth."

Developer PDF for community layout: https://mccmeetingspublic.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/angletontx-meet-2aad8ca59ed246c285d1923fb1d214bf/ITEM-Attachment-001-b579d784e7f243d28ef640b5dafc1b11.pdf https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/05/02/ashton-gray-to-develop-ashland-angleton-brazoria.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_27&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s "Development will happen in two phases. Phase 1 should begin in the fourth quarter of this year and include about 1,200 lots on the first 500 acres, Vembutty said. The community will include more than 200 acres of amenity space, including a nature preserve, detention ponds with an 8-mile trail system, a recreation center with a gym, a resort-style pool and a lap pool, and a playground. According to the developer agreement, the city of Angleton will annex Ashland, which is currently in its extraterritorial jurisdiction, into the city limits once it’s close to full build-out. The contract also gives Ashton Gray and the city two years to secure an agreement from Brazoria County and the Texas Department of Transportation to develop Highway 288 frontage roads. If no agreement is reached, Ashton Gray will be able to develop the tracts intended for commercial use as residential instead. If they succeed in getting a frontage road built, the plan is to develop a mixed-use retail district. “I would love to see something really, really nice like a town center or something of that architecture or that design,” Angleton Mayor Jason Perez said. “Because that is going to be the front door of the community.” With nearly 2,500 homes, Ashland could bring more than 7,000 new residents to the town, which hasn’t grown much in the past 20 years. Its population was 18,130 in 2000 and 19,437 in the 2020 U.S. Census."

Surprised we didn't have a thread for this. Serves the areas of Angleton, Danbury, Rosharon and the surrounding areas and is the first trauma designated facility in Brazoria County. The campus is located at 132 East Hospital Drive. https://www.utmb.edu/utmbhealth/locations/hospitals-campuses/angleton-danbury-campus