North Carolina commission approves 5-MW Old Road Solar project

January 10, 2017 Barry Cassell Generation

The North Carolina Utilities Commission on Jan. 10 approved a December 2015 application from the Old Road Solar LLC affiliate of FLS Energy for a certificate of public convenience and necessity on a 4.99-MW (ac) solar photovoltaic facility.

This project is to be located off Mt. Herman Church Road, approximately 0.8 miles from the intersection of Mt. Herman Church Road and Mayfield Road, at Ruffin in Rockingham County, North Carolina. The applicant plans to sell the electricity generated by this facility to Duke Energy Carolinas.

The original application had a projected on-line for the facility of Oct. 15, 2016.

Project contact information from the application is: Old Road Solar LLC, Corporate agent: Dale Freudenberger, 130 Roberts Street, Asheville, NC 28801, 828.350.3993, interconnect@flsenergy.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.