Dominion Energy has acquired from Community Energy the 80MW Amazon Solar Farm US East solar facility in Accomack County near Oak Hall in Virginia.
Construction is expected to begin later in 2015. The facility would enter service in fall 2016.
Construction was enabled through a long-term power purchase agreement with an affiliate of Amazon’s cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services.
Interconnection agreements have also been secured with Delmarva Power and an engineering, procurement and construction contract has been signed.
The project is also expected to qualify for the federal Investment Tax Credit.
Dominion chairman, president and chief executive officer Thomas Farrell said: “We look forward to expanding our relationship with Amazon as it seeks to increase the mix of renewable energy on the electric grid powering its data centers.
“This project also shows Dominion’s commitment to building additional clean, renewable solar facilities in Virginia.”
Image: Somers solar centre (Dominion)
Dominion nabs 80MW in Virginia
Amazon Solar Farm US East solar facility acquired from Community Energy
By EBS