Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker joined Reactivate and ComEd in Chicago Heights to announce the 100th neighborhood photo voltaic website in northern Illinois, which is able to serve low-to-moderate earnings ComEd prospects, and is without doubt one of the first neighborhood photo voltaic websites positioned in a Prepare dinner County environmental justice neighborhood. The photo voltaic farm, Verduin, is deliberate to be positioned in service by the top of December.
“Since Day 1 as Governor, I’ve made it my mission to advance clear vitality all through our state, ushering in a brand new period of environmental justice and sustainability for each neighborhood,” stated Governor J.B. Pritzker. “That’s why, in 2021, I signed my administration’s landmark Local weather and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), which elevated funding for the Illinois Photo voltaic for All program, giving lower-income prospects entry to initiatives like Reactivate’s Verduin neighborhood photo voltaic challenge. That is precisely the type of partnership that advantages our communities, our surroundings, and our economic system multi functional, and I’m so grateful for ComEd and Reactivate’s management and collaboration to make our imaginative and prescient a actuality.”
Group photo voltaic permits all ComEd prospects to comprehend the advantages of fresh photo voltaic vitality with out putting in photo voltaic panels of their very own. Individuals subscribe to a photo voltaic challenge owned by an unbiased developer and earn credit on their month-to-month ComEd payments for his or her portion of the vitality produced by the challenge. In Illinois, neighborhood photo voltaic prospects can subscribe as much as 200% of their final 12 months of electrical energy utilization. Power generated by the neighborhood photo voltaic challenge flows to ComEd’s grid and turns into a part of the general vitality provide.
“We’re proud to companion with Reactivate and to assist their main efforts to assist extra prospects scale back their vitality prices and scale back their very own carbon footprint by neighborhood photo voltaic,” stated Gil Quiniones, CEO of ComEd. “These tasks will allow ComEd prospects, significantly low-to-moderate earnings prospects, to save cash on their electrical payments whereas supporting the growth of renewable vitality and Illinois’ bold clear vitality objectives.”
Reactivate’s Verduin neighborhood photo voltaic challenge in Chicago Heights consists of roughly 5,200 photo voltaic panels and occupies roughly 20 acres on Cottage Grove Avenue. It’s going to serve roughly 660 prospects. Reactivate has 5 further neighborhood photo voltaic tasks underway in northern Illinois: in Chicago Heights, Ford Heights, Monee, Granite Metropolis and Rockford. These six tasks will generate roughly 10.5 MW of fresh vitality in complete and can serve the vitality wants of roughly 3,000 properties, of which the bulk are low-to-moderate earnings households.
ComEd prospects can go to this web site to study extra about photo voltaic choices, the interconnection course of and use the ComEd neighborhood photo voltaic calculator, which supplies an estimate for potential buyer financial savings. Prospects interested by subscribing to Reactivate’s tasks can go to this web site.
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