Progress Energy uses one of SEM’s projects as a success story for the SunSense Commercial Solar PV Program.
Progress Energy Carolinas has had a variety of recent news about our solar programs and research efforts, and I’d like to share some highlights with you.
Here are two recent success stories about businesses in North Carolina participating in our SunSense Commercial Solar PV (photovoltaic) Program:
– Raleigh car dealership Westgate Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram (CJDR) is adding a 98.7-kilowatt (kW) solar PV array to its service bay. Southern Energy Management is designing and installing the array, with 420 solar modules made by LG. The project should be finished this month. The system will provide Westgate CJDR with more than 129-megawatt hours of clean energy each year that it will sell to us, to help meet our customers’ energy needs in part with renewable energy.
– On Oct. 10 we participated in an event celebrating the completion of a solar array atop Glen Raven’s Sunbrella Yarn Manufacturing Center in Norlina, N.C. The new 500-kW solar array is the largest under our SunSense Commercial Solar PV Program, generating electric power roughly equivalent to the annual electricity usage of 47 typical homes.
To encourage the development of renewable energy, we offer a premium price for solar power developed on commercial rooftops. In North Carolina, we have more than 200,000 kW of renewable energy under contract. We also offer rebates to residential customers to help reduce the cost of installing rooftop solar PV arrays.
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