Comments on: Developer asked to pay $26 million interconnection charge for 1-MW solar landfill project /2025/01/developer-asked-to-pay-26-million-interconnection-charge-for-1-mw-solar-landfill-project/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:53:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: James Arnold /2025/01/developer-asked-to-pay-26-million-interconnection-charge-for-1-mw-solar-landfill-project/#comment-148759 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:53:02 +0000 /?p=108360#comment-148759 Greedy eversoure does not like having to connect solar to their grid, so charges rediculous connection charge and there is no one to stop them.

]]> By: Solarman2 /2025/01/developer-asked-to-pay-26-million-interconnection-charge-for-1-mw-solar-landfill-project/#comment-148753 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:48:23 +0000 /?p=108360#comment-148753 “Solar project developer Verogy released information today that a planned 975-kW solar project on a former landfill in Windham, Connecticut, has been met with a $26 million estimated bill for grid interconnection. Typically, transmission interconnection upgrades for projects less than 1 MW cost approximately $50,000 to $300,000.” Oh Lord, there seems to be a NEED for a house cleaning at local utility Eversource. One has to ponder if this is a paperwork decimal problem or an egregious attempt to foist the entire local grid upgrades on one project?

The only salvation in this project might be if a commercial entity wants to buy in and construct a business with an attached 1MWp solar PV facility and then add a very large ESS facility on site as a micro-grid. I see this as an opportunity to test the hypothesis, distributed micro-grids with “thin wires” connections to the local grid are a viable way to efficiently power larger power users from an existing constricted grid connection.

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