
The Tarpey Farm LLC affiliate of Strata Solar LLC applied July 29 at the North Carolina Utilities Commission for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity authorizing construction of a 5-MW (ac) solar facility to be located in Granville County.
The facility site is located east of West B Street (also known as State Road 1100), west of Running Brook Road, and north of Coley Road, in Butner, Granville County.
The facility is projected to come on-line in September 2017. Electricity generated will be sold to Duke Energy Carolinas under a 15-year power purchase agreement. The service life of the equipment is expected to be a minimum of twenty years.. The projected annual sales of the $14 million facility are 9,000,000 kWh.
Project contact information is: Jackson Naftel, Strata Solar LLC, 50101 Governors Drive, Suite 280, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, 919.960.6015, jnaftel@stratasolar.com.