June 9, 2022 Anne Fischer

The French Highway Photo voltaic mission in Burlington, Illinois is one among about two dozen within the state accomplished by Nexamp, a Massachusetts-based firm that just lately established an workplace in Chicago.

Native officers and residents joined ComEd and Nexamp representatives for a ribbon chopping ceremony on the just lately accomplished mission.

The two.8 MW set up will transfer the state nearer to assembly its formidable clear power targets. Illinois handed the Local weather and Equitable Jobs Act (SB 2408), final September, which units the state on a trajectory towards 100% clear power by 2050. The legislation additionally gives speedy steps that assist speed up the renewable power transition that’s already underway in Illinois. The Act propelled photo voltaic ahead within the state, after many initiatives have been waitlisted. Since then over 250 MW of recent neighborhood photo voltaic initiatives have been accepted.

“Illinois is a nationwide chief in setting formidable renewable power targets that can contribute to significant progress on decarbonization. Group photo voltaic is enjoying an essential function as we rethink how we generate and distribute power at the moment,” mentioned Matt Walsh, Director of Enterprise Improvement, Midwest, Nexamp.

The French Highway Photo voltaic mission is situated about 55 miles west of Chicago in ComEd territory. The set up has over 7,000 photo voltaic panels producing 2.8 MW of fresh power. Able to offsetting the power wants of roughly 400 common properties, it’s going to additionally offset practically 6 million kilos of CO2 yearly.

Nexamp was based in 2007 and has centered on neighborhood photo voltaic since earlier than most individuals knew what it was. In an interview in 2019, CEO Zaid Ashai instructed pv journal that “neighborhood photo voltaic is de facto fascinating to look at as a result of it permits that phase of ratepayers and clients to take part in photo voltaic. It additionally permits us to construct bigger energy crops – they’re nonetheless pretty intently situated to load facilities – and artistic options.”

Nexamp has one other dozen or extra beneath neighborhood photo voltaic initiatives at the moment beneath improvement in Illinois. Nationwide, the corporate has operational neighborhood photo voltaic initiatives in seven states and is actively growing in lots of extra states which have enabling laws. Along with neighborhood photo voltaic, Nexamp has current business and industrial initiatives in different states together with Calif., Georgia and Rhode Island.