39-MW Innovative Solar 43 project due in first operation in October

January 14, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

Innovative Solar 43 LLC, which is developing a 38.9-MW (ac) project in North Carolina, on Jan. 13 filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a notice of self-certification as an Exempt Wholesale Generator.

The company owns and will operate a 38.9-MW (ac) solar photovoltaic facility in Ivanhoe in Bladen County, North Carolina. The facility will interconnect with the Duke Energy Progress (DEP) balancing authority area in the Southeast region. The facility has an executed power purchase agreement with DEP under which the applicant will sell all of the facility’s output to DEP.

The facility is expected to begin generating test energy in October 2016. Innovative Solar 43 is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FLS Energy Inc., a North Carolina corporation.

A company contact is: Patty Mandaro, Director of Legal Operations, FLS Energy Inc., 130 Roberts Street, Asheville, NC 28801, telephone (828) 233-8117, pmandaro@flsenergy.com.

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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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