Cypress Creek seeks North Carolina nod on 45-MW Aquadale Solar project

November 30, 2016 Barry Cassell Generation

The Aquadale Solar LLC affiliate of Cypress Creek Renewables on Nov. 30 applied with the North Carolina Utilities Commission for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity on a 45-MW (ac) solar facility that will be located near the intersection of Montgomery Drive and Montgomery Road Extension in Mooresboro, Rutherford County, North Carolina.

The facility is projected to come on-line as of Oct. 1, 2019. The facility owner plans to sell the electricity to Duke Energy Carolinas pursuant to a power purchase agreement.

The service life of the $85 million project is expected to be approximately 35 years. The projected annual sales of the facility are expected to be around 92,038,600 kWh.

A project contact is: Evan Riley, 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.