PJM cancels wholesale deal for 10-MW solar project in Maryland

September 30, 2015 Barry Cassell Generation

PJM Interconnection on Sept. 30 notified the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of the cancellation of a 2014 Wholesale Market Participant Agreement with Community Energy Renewables LLC and transmission owner Delmarva Power and Light for a 10-MW solar project in Maryland.

“This WMPA is being cancelled because Community Energy has decided not to move forward with its interconnection project and will not participate in PJM’s markets,” said the notice.

This project has been under PJM queue #W3-160. It is the Worcester Solar Facility, to have been located in the Town of Berlin in Worcester County, Maryland. The Maximum Facility Output was to be 10 MW. It was to be a ground-mounted, inverter-based photovoltaic facility consisting of solar arrays and a 24.9 kV high side step up transformer.

A project contact is: Community Energy Renewables LLC, Three Radnor Corporate Center, Suite 300, 100 Matsonford Road, Radnor, PA 19087, Attn: Eric Blank.

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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.
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