LandGate has revealed a examine on the state of photo voltaic improvement in West Virginia, with a take a look at each potential and present exercise inside the area.
The examine evaluates photo voltaic improvement within the state by the lens of federal and native rules, out there incentives, grid interconnection and integration.
The corporate says findings embody a breakdown of how you can entry federal and state incentives and an evaluation of the states interconnection requirements.
The report additional discovered that photo voltaic improvement in West Virginia was not prioritized as a result of state’s deal with coal manufacturing. Nevertheless, latest federal and state insurance policies such because the Federal Funding Tax Credit score and Inflation Discount Act have promoted improvement since 2018.
“Though West Virginia at present has no working utility-scale photo voltaic farms, the state has one of many largest pipelines for future utility-scale photo voltaic improvement with 70 MW capability for deliberate initiatives, roughly 6,240 MW capability for 86 queued initiatives and 455 MW capability for ten web site management initiatives,” says Yoann Hispa, CEO of LandGate.
“Total, if all deliberate, queued, and web site management farms go into working standing, West Virginia will develop its capability by an estimated 6,765 MW.”
