FERC accepts wholesale deal for 20-MW Maryland solar project

January 9, 2015 Barry Cassell Generation

PJM Interconnection won a Jan. 8 acceptance from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of a Nov. 20 filing of an executed Wholesale Market Participation Agreement with Mitchell Solar Energy LLC and transmission owner Delmarva Power and Light for a 20-MW solar project.

“PJM is submitting this Agreement for filing because Mitchell intends to engage in wholesale sales in the PJM markets from a generating facility connected to Delmarva’s distribution facilities,” PJM noted in the Nov. 20 filing. The project is under PJM Queue Position #X3-008.

This is called the Dorchester County Solar 1 Project, located in Dorchester County, Maryland. This is to be a 20-MW, ground-mounted, inverter-based photovoltaic facility consisting of solar arrays and a 480/25 kV collector system. Under this agreement, on or before June 1, 2017, Mitchell Solar must demonstrate commercial operation of all generating units.

A company contact is: Mitchell Solar Energy LLC, One South Wacker, Suite 1900, Chicago, IL 60606, Attn: Juan Hayem, Phone: 312-224-1400, Email: JHayem@invenergyllc.com. That is contact information for power plant developer Invenergy LLC.

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Barry Cassell is Chief Analyst for GenerationHub covering coal and emission controls issues, projects and policy. He has covered the coal and power generation industry for more than 24 years, beginning in November 2011 at GenerationHub and prior to that as editor of SNL Energy’s Coal Report. He was formerly with Coal Outlook for 15 years as the publication’s editor and contributing writer, and prior to that he was editor of Coal & Synfuels Technology and associate editor of The Energy Report. He has a bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan University.