Renewable Properties Expands its Growing Community Solar Portfolio in 2024 with over 50 MW of New Projects Across Four States

Renewable Properties, a developer and investor in small-scale utility, community solar, energy storage, and electric vehicle infrastructure projects, added 50 MW of completed projects to its portfolio in 2024. Located in four states, the projects consist of traditional community solar projects, utility administered community solar serving low-income communities, and traditional utility solar.

Five of the community solar projects, totaling over 18 MW, came online in New York State. Three of these, in Batavia and the Village of Minoa, were completed in July. The Slayton Settlement Road Solar A & B projects in the town of Lockport are notable additions for their use of agrivoltaics. Completed in February and March of 2024, the arrays incorporate the area’s sheep farmers for ground cover vegetation management and feature a reserved area designated for beekeeping. In addition, the Slayton sites are seeded with a Fuzz & Buzz seed mix to enhance the pollinator habitat for the residing honeybees as well as to improve the nutritional grazing value for the sheep. These dual-use projects support the New York region’s cultivation of honey, wool, lamb meat, and other related products, maintaining the agricultural production value of the property and allowing the landowner to keep the third-generation organic dairy farm in his family. 

Three California projects were brought online in Q4 of 2024 in the towns of Chowchilla and El Nido. Totaling nearly 15 MW, the projects are part of PG&E’s Disadvantaged Communities (DAC) Green Tariff program, which is designed to promote the installation of renewable generation in disadvantaged communities as identified byCalEnviroScreen. The program incentivizes developers to build projects in these communities and to provide power from the projects to low-income households via a 20% bill credit.

Maine had three Renewable Properties community solar projects come online in 2024, with a project in Manchester completing construction in July, a project in Winslow completed in August, and a project in Bangor completed in November. The Maine projects total over 11 MW.

In North Carolina, a 6.62 MW project in the town of Gibson was completed in November. The project is participating in the Qualifying Facility program available in North Carolina.

“The 50 MW of projects Renewable Properties brought online in 2024 are furthering our mission to drive energy forward for local communities,” said Aaron Halimi, Founder and CEO of Renewable Properties. “These projects exemplify how we accomplish that mission, with a majority of them being community solar projects bringing communities a host of benefits, such as energy bill savings, local jobs, increased revenue, and local environmental benefits.”

Together, the 12 projects that were brought online in 2024 will generate enough electricity to power 11,822 homes per year and offset the equivalent of 56,727 tons of carbon dioxide annually.

With these latest projects, Renewable Properties is starting 2025 on a strong note. In addition to constructing new EV charging hubs for last-mile delivery fleets in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company has 235 MW of solar in operation or in construction across 51 projects. For 2025, Renewable Properties expects another 90 MW to be completed from their 1.2 GW solar, energy storage, and EV infrastructure development pipeline.

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