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Chapel Hill’s Strata Solar on fast track in building arrays

Triangle Business Journal by John Downey

Chapel Hill – Strata Solar will soon put the finishing touches on a 4.5 megawatt solar array in Kings Mountain that will be the Chapel Hill-based solar company’s largest project to date.


But it already has four 5-megawatt projects in the pipeline, according to filings with the N.C. Utilities Commission.

“We’re seeing a different set of players that had not been investing in the energy industry in the past,” says Strata President John Morrison, explaining a sudden burst in large-scale solar projects in the state. “And I think we are on the front end of a change in the power … (read more)