Birdseye affiliate seeks North Carolina nod on 10-MW Howardtown solar project

October 13, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

Howardtown Farm LLC applied Oct. 12 at the North Carolina Utilities Commission for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity on a a 10-MW (ac) solar photovoltaic project to be located at 479 Shaw Mill Road, St. Pauls, Robeson County, North Carolina.

The facility will consist of approximately 46,892 PV solar modules affixed to ground-mounted racks supported on driven piles. The system will utilize four inverters and will be tied to the grid operated by Lumbee River Electric Membership Corp.

The facility is projected to come on-line as of Nov. 30, 2017. The electricity generated will be sold to the North Carolina Electric Membership Corp. under a 10-year power purchase agreement. The projected cost of the facility is $20 million.

A project contact is: Howardtown Farm LLC, Attn: Brian C. Bednar, 1125 E. Morehead Street, Suite 202, Charlotte, NC 28204, (704) 644-7733, team@birdseyeenergy.com. Bednar is President and Founder of Birdseye Renewable Energy.

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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.