Hollywood Oyster Farm, Maryland
Solar Energy Services was introduced to the principals at the Hollywood Oyster Company who were considering solar energy. SES was contracted to design and install a turnkey ground mounted solar PV system to support the Oyster Farming Operation. SES helped the customer to navigate USDA agricultural grants, state incentives, as well as facilitating the use of Marylandâs Aggregated Net-metering policies. These incentives combined with the federal investment tax credit created an economic return that made the project an easy decision for the firm.
The grid-tied, ground mounted, 72 kW solar photovoltaic system was interconnected to the SMECO utility electric grid.
As part of the system design, SES anticipated the potential requirement for a transformer upgrade to accommodate the aggregate virtual netmetering between one of the farms meters and another. SES worked with the customer and the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) to initiate the process for the transformer upgrade work.
Once this process was underway and preliminary permission was given for interconnection, SES commenced construction of the solar array.
