Panel The Planet

A solar project with a difference could come to Napa County — floating panels on 56 acres of Napa Sanitation District ponds and two miles of new transmission lines passing near Soscol Junction.

The Napa County Planning Commission is scheduled to discuss the proposal on Wednesday. It meets at 9 a.m. in the county administration building, 1195 Third St. in Napa.

Laketricity would lease space on the NapaSan ponds along the Napa River south of the Butler Bridge, which carries Highways 12 and 29. The project’s 56-acre expanse would be about the size of the Vintage High School campus in north Napa.

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Source: Napa Valley Register

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Commercial solar is in the middle of a surge. The total number of solar capacity installed by US businesses more than doubled between 2019 and 2022, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. Meanwhile, states and localities are readying new penalties on carbon emissions, and energy prices continue to be vulnerable to global disruptions.

But while solar’s time is increasingly “now”, property owners and developers who take a do-it-yourself approach can quickly find themselves adrift amid all the complexities, says Blair Herbert, CEO of Coast Energy. Instead, having a partner who works as a one-stop-shop to navigate the regulatory, installation, financing and operational hurdles can help owners and developers gain real NOI benefits more efficiently.

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Source: GLOBE ST.

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