Nexamp, TPE cut ribbon at 9.4-MW solar farm in Rhode Island

US solar and storage developer-operator Nexamp and clean energy development and advisory firm TurningPoint Energy (TPE) have inaugurated a 9.4-MW solar farm in the town of Warren, Rhode Island.

The project repurposed the land that was previously used as a golf course and turned it into a solar power site with a capacity to generate around 11.5 GWh of electricity annually, Nexamp said on Friday.

The solar farm is made up of two co-located arrays featuring over 17,000 modules.

TPE was behind the project development. Nexamp built the solar farm, and is now its owner and operator. The plant uploaded power to the grid for the first time last month, Nexamp said.

The Warren town solar farm is located in the service territory of utility company Rhode Island Energy. It is part of Rhode Island’s Virtual Net Metering programme, providing energy savings to 15 area non-profit organisations, schools, cities and towns that have signed an energy sales agreement with Nexamp and get their power from Rhode Island Energy.

Jenn DeLaney, Nexamp’s Vice President of Channel Operations, said that this was the company's largest solar project in Rhode Island to date.

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