34-MW Innovative Solar 31 project in North Carolina due for startup in December 2016

August 8, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

Innovative Solar 31 LLC, which is developing a 34.2-MW (ac) project in North Carolina, on Aug. 8 filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a notice of self-certification as an Exempt Wholesale Generator.

Applicant owns and will operate a 34.2-MW (ac) solar photovoltaic facility in Bladenboro, Bladen County, North Carolina. The facility will interconnect with the Duke Energy Progress-controlled grid. It has an executed power purchase agreement with Duke Energy Progress for all of the facility’s output. The facility is expected to begin generating test energy in December 2016.

Innovative Solar 31 is an indirect subsidiary of: Arowana International Limited, an Australian public company; New Energy Solar, an Australian entity; and Firstar Development LLC.

Innovative Solar 31 on Aug. 8 also filed with FERC for market-based rate authority.

A project contact is: Ken Allen c/o VivoPower USA LLC, 140 Broadway, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10005, Fax: (844) 774-0503, notice@vivopower.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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