Two adjacent projects in West Friendship, Howard County, Maryland, totaling 6.25 MW. We have received all the necessary permits and the projects are currently under construction. The projects serve local community residents and small businesses, via the Community Solar Maryland program, and Loyola University Maryland, via the Aggregate Net Energy Metering program. Like all of our projects in the mid-Atlantic, the projects will feature a pollinator habitat, which will help restore bee population, and grow productivity of surrounding farms.
An approximately 3 MW community solar project we are developing in Central Maryland. The special feature of this project is that it is a “floating solar” project, or “flotovoltaic”, to be installed on a local water body. Floating solar, in addition to obviously reducing land impact, can improve water quality, combat rising water temperatures, reduce evaporation, decrease algae bloom, and improve fish habitat. As part of the project, a local academic institution will collect data and water samples, which will inform us on how to best deploy this technology at a larger scale.
A larger project of approximately 50 MW, coupled with wind resources and battery storage, we are developing in the highlands of South-Western New Mexico, for the benefit of digital currency miners. The project is designed to best serve the needs of this unique set of customers, and is ideally situated for them, as the project benefits from sunny yet dry and cool climate, abundant land, and grid power availability with a decreasing carbon footprint. We are working closely with the local utility and digital currency experts to ensure a smooth integration between solar generation and currency mining operations.