Sun Farm VIII seeks North Carolina approval for 4-MW solar project

August 8, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

Sun Farm VIII LLC applied Aug. 8 at the North Carolina Utilities Commission for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for a 4-MW (ac) solar farm in Nash County, North Carolina.

The site address is 6582 N US Hwy 301, Battleboro, NC 27809. The $9.5 million facility is projected to come on-line as of Dec. 15, 2017.  The applicant plans to sell to the electricity to be generated to Virginia Electric and Power d/b/a Dominion North Carolina Power in accordance with its standard offer power purchase agreement.

A project contact is: Heath McLaughlin, 176 Mine Lake Court, Suite #100, Raleigh NC 27615, Heath@Biue-GreenEnergy.com, telephone (321) 202-3600. That is contact information for Blue Green Energy LLC.

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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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