The plan to build the largest solar power plant in the US Mid-Atlantic region is getting near realization as the city of Dover, the State of Delaware, and other project planners enter final agreements.

The Dover SUN Park would be the first and largest solar power plant in the Mid-Atlantic, producing 10 megawatts (MW) of electricity, enough to power 1,700 homes in Dover, the second largest city of Delaware.

Dover’s utility committee will be reviewing the solar energy purchase agreement between the city and Delmarva Power before recommending the project to the city council. The meeting will be held on July 13, 2009.

Delmarva Power, a utility which serves the state, is owned by Pepco Holdings, Inc.

The solar project, which will stand on 90 acres of Dover’s Garrison Oak Technology Park, will be built and owned by LS Power, a US power generation company. LS Power will own the Dover SUN Park through its affiliate White Oak Solar Energy, LLC.

Delmarva Power President Gary Stockbridge said the Dover SUN Park, combined with the utility’s four wind energy projects in the pipeline, will help meet Delaware’s target of 20% energy from renewables by 2019.

Delmarva Power, which supplies electricity to 500,000 consumers in Delaware and Maryland, expects to get power from the first of its three planned wind farms on land by the end of this year. It also plans an offshore wind farm between 2012 and 2014.

L.S. Power is involved in the construction and operation of 20,000 MW of power generation throughout the US.


- Eric Dorente

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