Solar Landscape Completes Atlantic County’s First Community Solar Project
Egg Harbor Twp., NJ – August 15, 2024 – Solar Landscape, the nation’s leading commercial and community solar developer, announced today that it has energized the first community solar project in Atlantic County, N.J.
This project was completed with the support and interconnection by Atlantic City Electric and marks Solar Landscape’s first community solar project energized in Atlantic City Electric’s service area.
The new 920-kilowatt (DC) rooftop solar installation in Egg Harbor Township now serves over 200 households and will save local residential subscribers – most of whom are low- and moderate-income families – over $300 per year on home energy bills on average.
The project is the final installation to be energized in an award-winning 6 MW (DC) capacity portfolio of rooftop community solar projects on Extra Space Storage facilities throughout the state. The renewable energy portfolio will serve 900 local households, saving subscribers a total of nearly $240,000 per year. One of the projects in the portfolio was named Project of the Year by Solar Builder magazine.
“We recognize the importance in connecting community solar projects, like this one, to the grid and know that our customers and the communities we serve are able to gain access to a clean energy solution that they may otherwise not have without community solar,” said Phil Vavala, region president, Atlantic City Electric. “Community solar expands access regardless of your property limitations and gives residents the ability to save, all while moving our clean energy goals forward and supporting the state’s clean energy future.”
“Together with Atlantic City Electric and Extra Space Storage, we’re advancing the benefits of community solar to even more residents in southern New Jersey,” said Solar Landscape CEO and Co-Founder Shaun Keegan. “Our first community solar project with Atlantic City Electric is an exciting milestone for Solar Landscape and we appreciate the teamwork that makes projects like this a reality. Extra Space Storage was an early leader on community solar and we’re proud to continue to partner with them to bring guaranteed savings and good-paying jobs to local residents through our rooftop community solar projects.”
Extra Space Storage’s community solar projects created family-sustaining jobs in the clean energy economy for installers who placed solar panels across 725,000 square feet of the company’s commercial rooftops.
“Extra Space Storage has been committed to solar initiatives for more than a decade, an effort that has taken on new meaning with community solar,” said McKall Morris, Senior Manager of Communications and Sustainability, Extra Space Storage. “Through this partnership with Solar Landscape, Extra Space is proud to be bringing more value to our communities, customers, employees, and shareholders by expanding access to affordable solar energy.”
Solar Landscape’s community solar projects allow residents to subscribe to a nearby large solar installation that is hosted on a commercial rooftop. The residents subscribe to receive the electricity generated at a discounted rate, expanding access to affordable renewable energy to residents who could not previously access it.
Residents interested in learning more about community solar can visit www.solarlandscape.com.
About Solar Landscape
Solar Landscape is the leading commercial and community solar developer in the United States. The company partners with the world’s largest real estate companies to develop, install, and operate solar projects on commercial and industrial rooftops. Through the groundbreaking community solar model, households in surrounding communities can subscribe to receive solar power at a guaranteed discount. Solar Landscape has deployed more than 500 megawatts of renewable energy projects – totaling over $1 billion in capital investment – and leased 100 million square feet of commercial rooftops. The company was named the #1 Distributed Generation developer for 2023 by New Project Media and was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy’s Community Solar Grand Prize. For more, visit www.solarlandscape.com.
About Atlantic City Electric
Atlantic City Electric is a unit of Exelon (Nasdaq: EXC), a Fortune 200 company and the nation’s largest utility company, serving more than 10 million customers. Atlantic City Electric provides safe and reliable energy service to approximately 572,000 customers in southern New Jersey.
About Extra Space Storage
Extra Space Storage Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust, and a member of the S&P 500. As of March 31, 2024, the Company owned and/or operated 3,793 self-storage properties, which comprise approximately 2.6 million units and approximately 289 million square feet of rentable storage space offering customers conveniently located and secure storage units across the country, including boat storage, RV storage and business storage. The Company is the largest owner and/or operator of self-storage properties in the United States and is the largest self-storage management company in the United States.
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