Building begins on 75-MW portfolio of New york city neighborhood solar projects
- Renewable resource developer Amp has broken ground on a 75-MWDC portfolio of community solar projects in New york city state.
With its under-construction portfolio in Massachusetts, Amp is on track to install almost 100 MW of community solar projects throughout the Northeastern by the end of the year.
The New york city portfolio includes 11 solar projects paired with 27 MWh of battery power storage space upstate and also will certainly provide electrical energy expense savings to getting involved subscribers as well as permit Amp to efficiently send off energy from the batteries based on the solar generation and also grid rates signals.
The Massachusetts portfolio is three projects amounting to 20 MWDC of solar combined with 24 MWh of battery power storage space as well as will certainly give expense credit scores to customers with the batteries taking part in the ISO-NE wholesale solutions markets.
" This collection of projects marks Amp's largest assemblage of concurrent neighborhood solar projects in the united state to day, and represents greater than $230 million in project financial investment," claimed Jared Donald, executive VP and head of Amp's U.S. procedures. "As we approach the close-out of these projects, the team is preparing to start building on a similarly-sized portfolio of New York and also Massachusetts properties that will certainly be completed next year, while we remain to try to find brand-new project opportunities in these states."
The projects under this portfolio will certainly help the state of New york city to accomplish its climate and sustainability objectives, including the just recently enhanced goal of guaranteeing at the very least 10 GW of mounted solar capability by 2030, while also improving the resilience and also top quality of the upstate grid.
As an extension of Amp's financial investment into these communities, Amp has partnered with Eden Renewables on five of these websites to holistically concentrate on establishing criteria for biodiversity as well as eco-friendly enhancement, proceeding farming usage as well as area academic benefits via making use of pollinator-friendly native plants as well as apiaries along with bird and bat habitats.
