Renewables Now – Ameresco inaugurates 42-MW Hawaiian solar park with storage

US renewables company Ameresco Inc (NYSE:AMRC) has officially launched commercial operations at a 42-MW solar park with storage at a military base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. A dedication ceremony to celebrate the milestone was held at the site of the solar-plus-storage complex in Ewa Beach on Friday.

The Kupono solar farm was installed within the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam West Loch Annex base, using 131 acres (53 ha) of Navy land under a long-term lease. The plant will feed electricity into Hawaiian Electric’s grid on O‘ahu, with its generation expected to meet the power demand of about 10,000 homes on the Hawaiian island.

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