Energy Partnership Seeking Solar Locations
Energy Partnership Seeking Solar Locations
June 14, 2019Updated: June 18, 2019
By News Channel Nebraska
By News Channel Nebraska
BEATRICE - An energy partnership based in the northeastern U.S. is examining the potential for a solar energy farm west of the Beatrice Biodiesel Plant.
Green Street Power Partners has built several solar installations in northeastern areas of the U.S, primarily Massachusetts.
Spokesman Craig Dwyer, the CEO of Terawatt Energy says the solar projects focus on partnerships with municipal power grids.
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Beatrice Board of Public Works Manager Tobias Tempelmeyer says the local utility has heard proposals from various entities for solar energy installations, but to this point, the projects have not been financially justified. The City of Beatrice is moving over the next three years to a new wholesale power supplier based in Ohio and has established agreements with wind energy providers.
Dwyer says Green Energy Partners is reaching out to potential municipal energy partners in about twenty states, including those in the Midwest.
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Dwyer says Green Street would build and operate a solar project and sell the power to the Beatrice Board of Public Works. Dwyer says given the potential site, the project could be as large as 15.9 megawatts….producing enough energy to power about 38-hundred homes. He says a project of that size would produce a little more than 30 million kilowatt hours, annually.
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Dwyer says solar projects currently can receive a 30-percent federal tax incentive, which scales back over time.
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Green Street Power Partners builds, owns and operates solar projects, but Dwyer says the agreements also have options for municipal utilities to later purchase and operate the facilities.
The company is looking at a couple of privately-owned tracts of land, near the Beatrice Biodiesel Plant.
Green Street Power Partners has built several solar installations in northeastern areas of the U.S, primarily Massachusetts.
Spokesman Craig Dwyer, the CEO of Terawatt Energy says the solar projects focus on partnerships with municipal power grids.
http://media3.floodradio.com/columbus/2019/06/Green-Energy1.mp3
:56 "electric prices"
Beatrice Board of Public Works Manager Tobias Tempelmeyer says the local utility has heard proposals from various entities for solar energy installations, but to this point, the projects have not been financially justified. The City of Beatrice is moving over the next three years to a new wholesale power supplier based in Ohio and has established agreements with wind energy providers.
Dwyer says Green Energy Partners is reaching out to potential municipal energy partners in about twenty states, including those in the Midwest.
http://media3.floodradio.com/columbus/2019/06/Green-Energy2.mp3
:25 "projects into"
Dwyer says Green Street would build and operate a solar project and sell the power to the Beatrice Board of Public Works. Dwyer says given the potential site, the project could be as large as 15.9 megawatts….producing enough energy to power about 38-hundred homes. He says a project of that size would produce a little more than 30 million kilowatt hours, annually.
http://media3.floodradio.com/columbus/2019/06/Green-Energy3.mp3
:11 "the 15-point-nine"
Dwyer says solar projects currently can receive a 30-percent federal tax incentive, which scales back over time.
http://media3.floodradio.com/columbus/2019/06/Green-Energy4.mp3
:13 "steep cliff"
Green Street Power Partners builds, owns and operates solar projects, but Dwyer says the agreements also have options for municipal utilities to later purchase and operate the facilities.
The company is looking at a couple of privately-owned tracts of land, near the Beatrice Biodiesel Plant.