Middle Tennessee Electric and Silicon Ranch Announce First Utility-Scale Solar Project Under TVA’s Expanded Generation Flexibility Program
Nashville-based Silicon Ranch , one of the nation’s largest independent power producers specializing in solar energy, agrivoltaics, and carbon solutions, and Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE), the largest electric cooperative in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) region and the second largest in the United States, today announced a landmark solar agreement under TVA’s newly expanded Generation Flexibility Program.
- Nashville-based Silicon Ranch , one of the nation’s largest independent power producers specializing in solar energy, agrivoltaics, and carbon solutions, and Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE), the largest electric cooperative in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) region and the second largest in the United States, today announced a landmark solar agreement under TVA’s newly expanded Generation Flexibility Program.
- The two middle Tennessee businesses have agreed to partner on the 110-megawatt (MWAC) Copeland Solar Farm, which will be the largest solar facility to serve a local power company (LPC) directly in the Tennessee Valley.
- View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240508699057/en/
[Left to Right] Chris Jones (President and CEO of Middle Tennessee Electric); Reagan Farr (Co-founder and CEO of Silicon Ranch) (Photo: Business Wire)
On behalf of MTE, Silicon Ranch will fund, construct, own, operate and maintain the 110 MWAC Copeland Solar Farm in Cumberland County, Tennessee. - “TVA thanks MTE and Silicon Ranch for their collaboration as we grow renewable energy and drive meaningful investment in Cumberland County.”