Dominion Energy Gets 150 MW Solar Project in Ohio from Invenergy

• Dominion Energy revealed today that a person of its subsidiaries has actually obtained the 150-megawatt (AC) Hardin solar creating facility, which recently entered solution in Hardin County, Ohio, from Chicago-based Invenergy.

Facebook will take the power created at the facility along with the renewable resource credit scores, under a long-lasting contract signed before the project's construction.

" With this solar project, Dominion Energy is broadening our solar producing portfolio right into Ohio, where we have a deep history of serving our customers as well as communities via our local distribution organization," stated Diane Leopold, executive vice head of state and principal operating police officer. "We remain to acquire and/or establish tidy energy projects for firms like Facebook that are aiming to reduce their carbon footprints as well as to contribute to combating climate modification. And we are proud to build on our Invenergy collaboration that has actually currently produced nearly 100 megawatts of solar creating ability elsewhere."

This marks Dominion Energy's very first solar energy investment in Ohio, where the firm owns and runs a Cleveland-based gas local circulation company serving 1.2 million customer accounts in, mainly, northeastern Ohio. Dominion possesses solar arrays in 9 various other states, consisting of in North Carolina, South Carolina as well as Utah, where the company likewise owns as well as runs gas utilities.

Dominion Energy closed on the purchase in 2020, and also building and construction tasks were completed in December.

" Invenergy is proud to further our collaborations with both Dominion Energy and Facebook, which show our dedication to sustainability that lugs across our work with energies as well as company renewable resource buyers alike," said Ted Romaine, elderly vice head of state of Origination at Invenergy. "Invenergy Services will certainly also bring our prize-winning procedures and also upkeep know-how to the project."

" We are thrilled to partner with Dominion and Invenergy to bring an added 150 megawatts of brand-new solar power to the grid," claimed Urvi Parekh, head of Renewable Energy at Facebook. "At Facebook, we are devoted to not just sustaining our operations with 100% renewable energy, yet to aiding speed up the shift to renewable resource."

Dominion Energy has more than 2,200 megawatts of solar creating capacity in operation with almost 3,500 megawatts of capacity in advancement. In 2020, S&P Global rated Dominion Energy's solar portfolio third amongst utility holding companies in the U.S.