New Energy Solar completes 55.6-MW US solar portfolio
New Energy Solar celebrated the completion of construction and commissioning of its eight newest solar plants in North Carolina and Oregon. Namely the Arthur, Church Road, County Home, Hanover, Heedeh, Pendleton, Organ Church and Bonanza.
County Home solar plant in Rockingham, North Carolina is 7.2 MWdc capacity. County Home will sell 100% of its output to Duke Energy Progress under a 15-year power purchase agreement.
The event was hosted by NEW and project developer Cypress Creek Renewables (CCR). NEW acquired County Home and the seven other projects from CCR in December 2017 and CCR will now provide site operations, maintenance and monitoring services.
With the completion of construction, these plants will add 55.6 MWDC of emissions-free generation capacity to NEW’s Portfolio. The eight plants are expected to generate about 80,000 megawatts of electricity annually, enough electricity to power over 6,400 homes and displacing more than 61,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions, the equivalent of removing more than 13,000 cars from the road.
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