Scheduled to open within the next few days, the farm, located in the city of Shelby, will contain 9,828 solar panels. The farm will be capable of producing 3 megawatts of electricity—enough to power about 250 homes.
Duke Energy will purchase power generated by the facility and direct it into the North Carolina power grid.
Carolina Cat Power Systems, a providers of service parts and sales of power generation equipment, says the Shelby facility is one of many farms built as part of a recent solar boom in North Carolina spurred by a state law mandating that one-eighth of all power produced by Duke Energy come from renewable sources by 2020.
Carolina Cat Power says the following organizations were instrumental to the project:
- Syncarpha Capital (financing; operation and asset management services)
- Yingli Solar (provider of the panels)
- WB Moore (construction of electrical systems)
- Gehrlicher Solar America Corporation (contracting)
- Carolina Cat Rental Store (construction equipment)
- Dicey Mills (tree clearing)
- North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources
- City of Shelby
