wiredInUSA January 2017

Powering Colorado

Duke Energy Renewables has acquired the 13MW Victory solar power project in Adams County, Colorado, from its developer juwi Inc. “Victory is our first solar project inColorado, wherewe already have an operatingwind energy site,” said Rob Caldwell, president, Duke Energy Renewables and Distributed Energy Technology. “It’s the fiftieth solar project in our growing US renewables footprint, and juwi’s high quality site marks another milestone in expanding our solar presence in the western part of the country.”

should be praised for its leadership in bringing clean, safe and reliable energy to its customers,” said Michael Martin, CEO, juwi Inc. The Victory site was built by juwi’s construction affiliate, JSI Construction Group LLC, and JSI O&MGroup LLC will be performing operation and maintenance services. The project consists of 47,880 ground-mounted panels. In its commercial business and regulated utilities, Duke Energy owns and operates around 2,900MW of wind and solar energy, having invested over $4 billion in renewable energy.

The solar site is already in operation.

“IREA has been tremendous to work with throughout all stages of this project and

Solar Panels Image: Duke Energy

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wiredInUSA - January 2017