Installation of Solar Energy Systems at Virginia State Facilities Award Number: DE-EE0007990 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.1, B5.16 State Energy Program Date: 5/18/2017 Location(s): VA Office(s): Golden Field Office
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Installation of Solar Energy Systems at Virginia State Facilities
Award Number: DE-EE0007990
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.1, B5.16
State Energy Program
Date: 5/18/2017
Location(s): VA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy (DMME) to install commercially available solar photovoltaic (PV) systems at three state-owned facilities occupied by Commonwealth of Virginia.
The proposed project would involve installing a rooftop PV system at the Department of Forestry (DOF) Headquarters in Charlottesville, and ground-mounted PV systems at the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) Virginia Public Safety Training Center in Hanover and the Department of Corrections (VADOC) Haynesville Correctional Center in Haynesville (an unincorporated town east of Warsaw). No change in the use or mission of existing facilities would arise out of this effort. Project sites would utilize commercially available solar PV systems rated between 250 to 315 Kilowatts and sized to offset a portion of each facility's electric usage. Each PV system would be smaller than two megawatts and would be interconnected behind-the-meter. The systems would be designed to not produce more electricity than used at each facility; however, should excess generation occur it would be sold to Dominion Virginia Power. No additional power poles or transformers would need to be installed.