North Carolina commission okays Strata Solar’s 5-MW Gladstone Farm project

May 24, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

The North Carolina Utilities Commission on May 23 approved a March 22 application from Gladstone Farm LLC for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for construction of a 5-MW (ac) solar photovoltaic facility.

This project is to be located on the east side of Hoffman Road (also known as State Road 1004), north of the intersection with Meredith Lane, West End, Moore County, North Carolina.

The $14 million facility is projected to come online in March 2017. Electricity generated will be sold to Duke Energy Progress under a 15-year power purchase agreement, the application said. The service life of the equipment is expected to be a minimum of twenty years. The projected annual sales of the facility are 9,000,000 kWh. 

A project contact is: Jackson Naftel, Strata Solar LLC, 50101 Governors Drive, Suite 280, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, phone 919.960.6015, jnaftel@stratasolarcom.

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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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