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    9.2-MW Community Solar project completed on Commercial Warehouse Rooftop in Maryland

    Dec. 1, 2021
    Black Bear Energy facilitated the partnership between SRE and STAG, while Powerflex handled engineering, procurement and construction services for the project
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    Summit Ridge Energy celebrated completion of a large rooftop community solar project atop a commercial warehouse in Carroll County, Maryland.

    SRE, which jointly owns the 9.2-MW solar project with investment firm Hannon Armstrong, held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the rooftop community solar display at the warehouse owned by STAG Industrial. Black Bear Energy facilitated the partnership between SRE and STAG, while Powerflex handled engineering, procurement and construction services for the project.

    Once operational, the STAG rooftop solar array will generate electricity and energy savings for approximately 1,300 residential and small commercial customers across Maryland.

    "This is a marquee project for Summit Ridge, our capital partners at Hannon Armstrong and the entire community solar industry," said Summit Ridge CEO Steve Raeder. "Leveraging 23 acres of largely unused roof space to generate energy savings for thousands of Marylanders is precisely the direction our nation's energy generation strategy needs to head."

    SRE has raised its rooftop community solar portfolio to more than 75 MW statewide. Nearly one-third of the projects are intended to serve low to moderate-income customers.

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    Walton formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

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