Virginia shines a glimmer of light on renewables by passing a wind and solar pilot program after a surprising about face by dominion power in supporting ppa legislation in 2013.
Power purchase agreement solar virginia.
The hanover county solar field is expected to be fully operational later this year.
Anthem also has a similar agreement with a solar field in north carolina.
On march 18 2013 governor bob mcdonnell signed into law power purchase agreement ppa legislation directing the state corporation commission scc to conduct a solar and.
The clean energy produced by the two new solar projects in chatham will be sold under power purchase agreements to danville utilities an electric municipal utility serving more than 42 000 customers in three virginia counties.
Directs the state corporation commission scc to conduct a pilot program in the territory of dominion energy virginia dev permitting third party power purchase agreements.
A solar power purchase agreement sppa is a financial arrangement in which a third party developer owns operates and maintains the photovoltaic pv system and a host customer agrees to site the system on its property and purchases the system s electric output from the solar services provider for a predetermined period.
The original intent of the norfolk solar qoz fund was to mitigate the energy burden of low income home owners.
Health benefits company anthem has signed a 15 year power purchase agreement with solar developer sunenergy for the output from a new 20 megawatt solar field in hanover county virginia.
In virginia such solar growth was stymied because of a cap on power purchase agreements initiated in 2013 as part of a pilot program for non residential customers in dominion energy territory.
An act to direct the establishment of a pilot program for third party power purchase agreements.
But because of the current limitation on power purchase agreements ppas in virginia we cannot install on private homes via a ppa.