Encore Renewable Energy accepted to set up 5-MW solar array in Maine

• Encore Renewable Energy obtained allowing authorizations to start building on a 5-MW selection on underutilized land in Oakland, Maine.

When finished, the brand-new solar array will certainly generate adequate tidy power to power virtually 10,000 Maine houses. Encore was chosen by Competitive Energy Services (CES) of Portland, Maine to give web metering credit scores from the project to a team of CES consumers.

These clients, that include services, towns and also scholastic establishments, will certainly get financial alleviation in the form of reduced yearly electrical energy prices, in addition to renewable energy credit reports from the project. The project is anticipated to be built later on this year.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the firm has actually functioned from another location to proceed creating tidy power projects in the state. The license was protected functioning collaboratively and also from another location with neighborhood authorities from the Town of Oakland.

" Maine's solar market has actually been progressing gradually under Governor Mills' management. This project as well as others that adhere to will certainly sustain Maine's expanding tidy power economic climate," claimed Chad Farrell, Encore Renewable Energy Founder and also CEO. "Solar as well as power storage space will certainly offer neighborhood areas and also Maine services with financial alleviation in the form of budget friendly electrical power, lease earnings for landowners, tax obligation income for tasks as well as areas, all while resolving the environment dilemma."

The Maine solar market is going into a duration of considerable growth. According to SEIA's Solar Market Insights Report, Maine is forecasted to create 873 MW of solar over the following 5 years.

"We will certainly be handling the influences of the existing pandemic for a long time, and also as we move on, we invite the possibility to deal with Maine neighborhoods to aid sensibly create the state's solar source in manner ins which profit both the areas in which we are functioning in addition to the total Maine economic situation," Farrell stated.