Solar real estate reality checks

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By Carl Ford

Partner, Crossfire Media

Last week, Duke Energy Renewables acquired three 1-megawatt commercial solar projects in the southwestern corner of North Carolina. This adds to their other eight megawatt solutions.

As I looked at the announcement, I asked myself what the relationship is between these farms that manage to get 1 megawatt and the big farms in the West that produce hundreds of megawatts.

I am of the belief that the problem is one of real estate.

The power opportunity is clearly in the Southwest; but looking at the population, there is clearly a problem of transport, as the population is mostly in the Northeast.

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