Cypress Creek pursues North Carolina nod on 50-MW West River Solar project

November 23, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

The West River Solar LLC affiliate of Cypress Creek Renewables applied Nov. 21 at the North Carolina Utilities Commission for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity on a 50-MW (ac) facility that will be located along Mount Hope Church Road, south of Millstream Road, in Whitsett, Guilford County, North Carolina.

The facility is projected to come on-line as of Oct. 1, 2020. The facility owner plans to sell the electricity to Duke Energy Carolinas pursuant to a power purchase agreement.

The service life of the $94.5 million project is expected to be approximately 35 years. The projected annual sales are expected to be about 99,940,000 kWh.

A project contact is: Jerome O’Brien, 3250 Ocean Park Boulevard, Suite 355, Santa Monica, CA 90405, (310) 581-6299, regulatory@ccrenew.com.

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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.