Hendricks Power Cooperative and Solential Energy plan to construct a 7-MWAC photo voltaic array inside Hendricks County, Illinois, for the agricultural electrical membership cooperative (REMC). The C&B Graham Photo voltaic Power Venture is known as for the native household offering 60 acres of land for the challenge.
Solential Power has efficiently labored with different REMCs on photo voltaic tasks throughout the Midwest. This will likely be Solential’s largest utility-scale photo voltaic set up in its 13-year historical past. Web site work is underway. The array in Tilden, Illinois, will likely be commissioned and producing solar energy by mid-2023.
“We’re dedicated to sustainability and lowering our environmental footprint by way of this clear and pollution-free vitality supply. Whereas our energy provider continues to extend their renewable portfolio, we’re proud to tackle this photo voltaic initiative independently,” stated Hendricks Energy CEO Greg Ternet. “Including a renewable useful resource to our system, at a price corresponding to our wholesale energy provider, exhibits that we’re environmentally and price conscientious. We’re additionally proud to work in tandem with our native companions and look ahead to increasing upon this platform to permit member-owner participation.”
“That is actually a particular challenge for Solential as a result of not solely is it the most important photo voltaic set up we’ve got ever developed, but additionally because of the vital impression the C&B Graham Photo voltaic Power Venture can have on cooperative members now and sooner or later,” stated Solential CEO Jim Shaw. “We’re all involved about rising vitality prices, vitality reliability and resilience, and the necessity to reduce environmental impacts. When you may ship an answer like we’re with Hendricks Energy, it’s an amazing day.”
Hendricks Energy’s C&B Graham Power photo voltaic challenge is being financed by Denver-based Solriver Capital, which invests in distributed era and utility scale photo voltaic and storage tasks throughout the US.
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