Castillo Engineering has won a contract from ClearPath Energy to provide electrical design and engineering for a 38.25 MW portfolio of six community solar projects in upstate New York.
The projects, ranging from 4.5 MW to 7.5 MW in size, are in late stages of construction in central New York. Castillo Engineering’s site optimization expertise resulted in over $200,000 in savings, on average, for each of these projects, which are scheduled to be operational in Q2 of 2022.
These projects will support New York in achieving its renewable energy goals, including a target to have 70 percent of the state’s energy produced from renewable resources by 2030. Three of the projects in this portfolio alone will increase one New York county’s solar capacity by nearly 50 percent. Six projects in this portfolio will generate enough clean energy to power 8,700 homes per year.
“With over 300 utility-scale projects under our belt and over twenty senior level engineers, we have the experience and capacity to support the nation’s leading solar EPCs and developers in order to accelerate the global transition to clean energy,” said Christopher Castillo, CEO of Castillo Engineering.
“They were highly engaged, beginning with the iterative design process through to project as-builts. Their experience was helpful when working with equipment vendors, contractors, and lender’s independent engineers,” Greg Hering, Co-Founder & Director of Development at ClearPath Energy, said in a news statement.