Renewables firms help Virginia city utility with 14-MW solar project

• Danville Utilities, in collaboration with CS Energy, Navisun and also TurningPoint Energy, completed a 14-MWdc utility-scale solar project in Danville, Virginia. The renewable resource project is the city's largest solar advancement to date.

The solar project is located in Pittsylvania County as well as is composed of 2 adjoining websites: Irish Road and Whitmell. The 100-acre project will create an estimated 23,551 MWh annually for the neighborhood. The power generated by the solar array corresponds to approximately 3% of Danville Utilities' yearly power output, or enough clean power to power 1,500 homes each year.

The Irish Road project is Danville Utilities' 2nd and 3rd solar websites. There is a fourth site presently under growth as well. "Danville Utilities ratepayers will certainly benefit lasting as a result of the brand-new Whitmell and Irish Road solar projects being completed just recently," said Jason Grey, Danville's director of energies. "The solar farms will help in reducing the city's exposure to boosting transmission as well as capability charges. These solar farms will additionally contribute to the city's present eco-friendly power supply portfolio as well as assist us meet our lasting objective of being entirely independent of fossil-fueled generation."

Navisun, a solar independent power producer, funded and owns the Irish Road solar plant, and also continues to increase its footprint of solar farms across the United States.

" The Danville project marked our initial venture right into the mid-Atlantic area," claimed John Malloy, managing companion at Navisun. "We are pleased to be ongoing companions in giving clean renewable energy to the consumers of Danville Utilities. Navisun is likewise happy with the partnerships created as well as common teamwork with the City of Danville, TurningPoint Energy and CS Energy-- particularly during these difficult times."

CS Energy is an integrated power company that makes and also constructs enhanced projects in the solar, storage and emerging power industries as well as supplied the project's design, purchase and also building (EPC) services.

" We delight in to expand our Virginia portfolio by supplying a solar power project that utilizes bifacial monitoring modern technology and makes clean power a lot more available to the homeowners as well as services of Danville. We take pride in our successful continuous partnerships with Navisun and also TurningPoint Energy. Their capacity to establish, and also offer lasting possession for projects across the United States make them leaders in the industry," said Chris Ichter, Director of Business Development for CS Energy.

The Irish Road project was developed by TurningPoint Energy, a tidy energy development business with solar projects throughout the United States. TurningPoint Energy additionally created Danville Utilities' very first solar energy plant, the 6 MW Kentucky site, and has established a long-lasting commitment to buying the Danville area. This includes donations amounting to greater than $66,000, with $20,000 most lately donated to God's Pit Crew, a Pittsylvania County, Virginia-- based not-for-profit reaction team that offers those in need in their community, as well as throughout the United States.

" TurningPoint Energy has provided on our 2nd project promise to Danville Utilities thanks to the partnership with landowners Mr. & Mrs. Oakes, Navisun and also CS Energy that came through in this most extraordinary and challenging pandemic year," claimed Jared Schoch, head of state, TurningPoint Energy. "This is a demo of the strength of the American economic climate and also an important critical financial investment by Danville Utilities with the assistance of Pittsylvania County and also its area members."

Construction on the project began in December 2019, and also project leaders needed to adapt to the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic. Supply delays brought about an adjusted project timetable, and added procedures needed to be produced to ensure the health and safety of those on site.

CS Energy offered masks, included handwashing stations as well as minimized office ability, and also consequently, zero instances were contracted at the project website. In spite of the additional sychronisation required to develop safely, the team successfully supplied Virginia's biggest metropolitan utility solar farm, which went survive August 26, 2020.

The Irish Road Solar Project will certainly supply power directly to Danville Utilities, getting to about 42,000 client locations in a 500-square-mile solution region in southern Virginia.