North Carolina commission okays 5-MW Beckwith Solar project of Cypress Creek

August 11, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

The North Carolina Utilities Commission on Aug. 10 approved a May 23 application from Beckwith Solar LLC for a certificate of public convenience and necessity allowing construction of a 5-MW (ac) solar photovoltaic facility to be located along Carolina Road, east of Zep Lewis Drive, west of School Street, north of Bertie Road, Tabor City, Columbus County, North Carolina.

The applicant plans to sell the electricity generated by this facility to Duke Energy Progress. The date the facility is projected to come on-line is Sept. 1, 2017. The projected annual sales of the facility are expected to be approximately 10,500,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh). The expected cost of the facility is about $9.45 million.

The project contact is: Evan Riley, 3250 Ocean Park Boulevard, Suite 355, Santa Monica, CA 90405, (310) 581-6299, regulatory@ccrenew.com. That is contact information for Cypress Creek Renewables, which is developing a number of solar projects in North Carolina.

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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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