
Strata Solar LLC‘s Kendall Farm LLC won a Sept. 27 North Carolina Utilities Commission approval for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity on a 5-MW (ac) solar facility to be located on the north side of Silk Hope Road, on the east side of E. Raleigh Avenue, and on the south side of Graham Street Ext, in Liberty, Randolph County, North Carolina.
The $14 million facility is projected to come on-line in September 2017. Electricity generated will be sold to Duke Energy Progress 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 facility are 9,000,000 kWh.
A project contact is: Jackson Naftel, Strata Solar LLC, 50101 Governors Drive, Suite 280, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, 919.960.6015, jnaftel@stratasolar.com.