Rawhide Prairie Solar

Fuel type: solar photovoltaic
Net capacity: 22 MW
Commercial operation: 2020
Operations
- Facility will cover approximately 150 acres
- TBA silicon photovoltaic panels
- Single-axis tracking system
- Battery will store up to 2 megawatt hours of solar energy and discharge at a rate of 1 megawatt when the sun isn't shining
Energy production
- Power will be purchased from Greenbacker
- Platte River receives full energy output of project
- Will generate power for approximately 6,000 homes per year
Environmental
- Renewable resource of energy
- Zero air emissions
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Rawhide Flats Solar

Fuel type: solar photovoltaic
Net capacity: 30 MW
Commercial operation:2016
Operations
- Facility covers approximately 185 acres, approximately the same amount of land occupied by Rawhide Unit 1 operations
- Total of 117,120 photovoltaic panels
- Single-Axis tracking system
- Generates enough power for approximately 7,000 homes each year
- Facility produces 64,000 megawatt-hours per year or approximately 2% of the owner communities’ annual energy needs
- Annual output equal to approximately 10,000 residential rooftop solar installations
Financials
- Power purchase agreement runs through 2036
- Fixed price contract
- Platte River receives full energy output of project
- Right to own facility in the future
Environmental
- Renewable resource of energy
- Zero air emissions
- Estimated lifespan of 30+ years
- No new transmission required
- Located at an existing industrial facility, no new real estate (acquisition) needed for installation