Nautilus Solar Energy completes biggest community solar project in Rhode Island

• Nautilus Solar Energy as well as TurningPoint Energy revealed the King community solar project located in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, has actually gotten to mechanical completion as well as will certainly be completely functional in July.

The 15.68-MWDC (12.44-MWAC) project, made from two solar arrays, jointly stands for the biggest community solar project in Rhode Island as well as will give greater than 3,000 Rhode Island National Grid clients with energy cost savings from signing up for the project. The project is owned and operated by Nautilus and originally established by TPE. Former Governor and current U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo attending the groundbreaking for the project in November 2019. The project called for substantial partnership in between Nautilus, TPE, Town of North Smithfield, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) as the project exists beside the Landfill & Resource Recovery, Inc superfund website, which is currently undertaking a lasting remedial response under the oversight of the EPA.

"The community solar pilot program in Rhode Island presents a distinct possibility for domestic consumers to participate in the tidy energy economy and also straight conserve cash on their utility costs," said Jim Rice, co-CEO and co-Founder of Nautilus Solar.

The King solar project belongs to the State of Rhode Island's Community Web Metering Solar Pilot Program which has helped to produce numerous temporary jobs and also supply savings to countless Rhode Island homeowners that have signed up for the project.

"We are enthusiastic that the legislature and also brand-new administration continue to build on this momentum by broadening the pilot program to allow for even more projects like King to be established in the State," included Jeffrey Cheng, Head Of State of Nautilus Solar.