Greenbank Farm may see more action on its community solar project come 2015.
Solar Horizon LLC is partnering with Whidbey Sun and Wind to figure out a solution for remaining un-utilized space in the farm’s solar array.
Greenbank Farm has six one-sixth–acre lots dedicated to community solar.
Currently there are three groups leasing those lots.
Cascade Community Wind and Solar out of Bellevue leased three lots in 2011.
Island Community Solar, a Whidbey Island based group, leased two lots in 2010 and in mid-2012 Newport Partners leased one lot and took over two lots from Cascade Community Wind and Solar.
The port charges $200 per lot, per year and also receives 1 percent of the leasees’ gross energy sales as well as 1 percent of the state and federal incentives they receive.
Of the six lots, only three of them are currently operational.
Newport Partners is not renewing its lease, which ends at the end of 2014.
David Tomlinson from Solar Horizon spoke with Port of Coupeville commissioners last week, saying he’d like to open discussions with the port and have some kind of plan to present at the November port meeting.