Construction of the Misenheimer Solar Park has been accomplished
Published 4:27 pm Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- Construction of the Misenheimer Solar Park was accomplished final week. (Contributed)
After years of growth, development was accomplished on April 24 on a renewable power undertaking in Misenheimer.
Misenheimer Solar Park is positioned on 500 acres of personal land about half a mile west of Pfeiffer University alongside each side of US Highway 52.
It was developed by EDP Renewables North America, a Houston-based firm that operates 60 wind farms and 12 photo voltaic parks in additional than 20 states and components of Canada and Mexico. The park has roughly 200,000 panels, from three to 4 ft by six to seven ft in peak.
The park has an put in capability of 74 megawatts, making it presumably one of many largest tasks within the state. The energy generated, equal to the consumption of greater than 12,000 houses in North Carolina, will assist the world’s electrical grid and shall be bought by Duke Energy.
Solar panels soak up daylight and convert it into electrical energy. Then it’s collected and adjusted by means of inverters into alternating-current and inserted into {the electrical} grid by means of the substation after being transformed to the right voltage.
EDPR has three photo voltaic parks in South Carolina, however the Misenheimer undertaking represents a primary for the corporate.
The photo voltaic park represents a capital funding of a minimum of $70 million, based on the corporate, and can distribute hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to native governments over the lifetime of the undertaking, together with an estimated $3.5 million in taxes to assist the native colleges and neighborhood providers.
Upon completion of the photo voltaic park, the corporate will start operations and find yourself hiring extra staff members.
