NextEra’s 100-MW Sugar Creek Solar project in Michigan to operate in 2018

July 25, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator on July 19 filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a Generator Interconnection Agreement with Sugar Creek Solar LLC and interconnecting transmission owner International Transmission Co. d/b/a ITC Transmission for a 100-MW project in Michigan.

MISO has designated this project as Project No. J419 in its interconnection queue. This is a solar photovoltaic facility with two, 50-MW phases rated at 100 MW net total, with all studies performed at or below these outputs.

The facility is to be composed of one hundred ten (110) GE ProSolar 1 MVA PV units. The Point of Interconnection will be at the point where the lead line from the generating facility lands on the 120-kV bus at the new Milan Substation of ITC, at breaker HD position.

The project’s targeted commercial operation date is Dec. 6, 2018.

Project contact information is: Sugar Creek Solar LLC c/o NextEra Energy Resources LLC, Attention: Business Manager, 700 Universe Boulevard, Juno Beach, FL 33408, Phone: 561-304-5641, Email: Brian.Duncan@nexteraenergy.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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