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Kentucky Public Service Commission Orders Clover Creek Solar Project to Provide Additional Information

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The Kentucky Public Service Commission has directed Clover Creek Solar Project, d/b/a New Frontiers Solar Park, to provide additional information in connection with its pending application for a certificate of construction for a 100-megawatt merchant electric solar generating facility in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. The order, issued on March 25, 2025, requires Clover Creek Solar to file with the Commission an electronic version of specific information by April 1, 2025. The requested information includes specifications, model numbers, and cutsheets of the photovoltaic (PV) cell/solar panels to be used, as well as geotechnical reports, environmental surveys, and data from other solar projects.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Kentucky Public Service Commission has ordered Clover Creek Solar Project to provide additional information in connection with its application for a certificate of construction for a 100-megawatt merchant electric solar generating facility in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
  • The order requires Clover Creek Solar to file with the Commission an electronic version of specific information by April 1, 2025, including:

+ Specifications, model numbers, and cutsheets of the photovoltaic (PV) cell/solar panels to be used.

+ Geotechnical reports, including the updated Phase 3 of the KARST assessment.

+ Data from other solar projects that EDP Renewables have gathered, utilized, and relied upon that indicates the number of local workers that have been hired in those projects.

+ Copies of all environmental surveys that have not yet been provided, including the Planning and Consultation (IPAC) report.

+ The executed purchase power agreement (PPA).

+ A map that identifies which segments of the medium voltage collection system are underground, which segments are above ground, and the location of the transmission lines with the right-of-way distinguished.

+ The location of the gas wells below ground and the status of specific gas wells, including whether they are abandoned or producing.

  • The order also requires Clover Creek Solar to provide a table with distances from the nearest non-participating residence (dwelling not property line) to various features of the project.

Statistics:

  • The 100-megawatt merchant electric solar generating facility in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, will be one of the largest solar projects in the state.
  • EDP Renewables has gathered data on over 10 solar projects in the region that have hired local workers.
  • The updated Phase 3 of the KARST assessment is a critical component of the geotechnical report.

Sources:

  • Order of the Kentucky Public Service Commission in Case No. 2024-00253 (March 25, 2025).
  • 807 KAR 5:001, Section 4(10) (Kentucky Administrative Regulations).
  • 807 KAR 5:001, Section 8 (Kentucky Administrative Regulations).
  • Motion for Deviation from Setback Requirements (filed on February 4, 2025).

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