ComEd and Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) have opened the two.5 MW Speedway Solar undertaking, situated 10 miles south of Joliet, Ill.
The set up – the seventy fifth neighborhood solar growth in ComEd’s service territory – will present greater than 350 ComEd clients with entry to solar energy and financial savings on their energy payments.
“The completion of 75 community solar developments in our service territory is a major milestone on our path to a clean energy future,” says Scott Vogt, vp of technique and energy coverage at ComEd. “Our collaboration with Summit Ridge Energy is expanding customer access to clean and affordable renewable energy and contributing to the goal of reducing carbon emissions in our communities.”
The Speedway Solar undertaking contains greater than 2,300 solar panels and occupies 31 acres on West Sharp Road in Elwood, Ill., about 60 miles southwest of Chicago.
“We credit ComEd for helping to accelerate the growth of community solar in the region and establishing Illinois as a leader in the fast-growing community solar sector,” feedback Mark Raeder, principal at SRE.
SRE is the biggest industrial solar developer and owner-operator in Illinois, with an energy portfolio of greater than 250 MW throughout the state.
By the tip of this yr, ComEd expects to have doubled the variety of neighborhood solar initiatives interconnected to its electrical grid to greater than 150, serving roughly 36,000 clients.
Overall, ComEd estimates that solar power on its grid, together with rooftop and neighborhood solar methods, will develop 5 occasions, from virtually 650 MW right this moment to about 3.3 GW by 2030. In 2022, ComEd obtained over 19,000 purposes from residential, industrial and industrial clients to attach solar panels and different distributed energy assets to ComEd’s grid.
