Clearway Energy Group has announced the completion of its first Illinois community solar farm, expanding access to local and affordable renewable energy in the US state. Clearway will energise the 3 MWdc Southland Solar Farm, just outside of Kankakee, and will activate eight more community solar farms in the coming months.
Community solar is a new model of clean energy development for Illinois that allows individual households, small businesses, and commercial customers to subscribe to a solar farm and receive energy credits that reduce their utility supply charges. Each of Clearway’s Illinois solar farms is subscribed to roughly 350 residential customers within the utility service territory.
