Titusville Solar Project

About Cypress Creek

Cypress Creek Renewables is powering a sustainable future, one project at a time. We develop, finance, own and operate utility-scale and distributed facilities across the country. With more than 10GW of solar developed and more than 3.7GW under management, Cypress Creek is one of the country’s leading solar and storage companies. Our Operations and Maintenance Services division is one of the largest operators of solar power in the country.

Cypress Creek Values

• Care – We take care to be safe. We care for the well-being of our team, our communities and the environment and we carefully deploy our resources.

• Courage – We take smart risks, we speak up and we make decisions. We learn and constantly improve.

• Creativity – We innovate to create valuable projects. We embrace new ideas and find solutions to hard problems.

• Conviction – We are committed to making the world cleaner and healthier. We do the right thing when our values are challenged.

• Collaboration – We come from different backgrounds to do our work together as one team.

Titusville Solar - Project Overview

• Nameplate Capacity: 20MW AC

• Fenced Area: 118 acres

• Solar Area: 89 acres

• Service Volume: Equivalent to 3,300 single-family homes

• Total Investment: $20 million

• Utilities Required: No additional services needed

• Lifetime Tax Contribution to Cherry Tree Township: TEstimated $495,000 in lifetime tax revenues, nearly ten times more compared to the current land use.

Titusville Solar is in the planning stage of development, or phase 2 in the graphic below. If the project is granted a Conditional Use Permit, the project will proceed with securingthe rest of the required permits, before moving on to the construction phase.

Solar Farm Development

Signing Agreements with landowners

Planning the Development

Building the Farm – EPC

Commissioning the Site

Energizing the Site

Finishing the Project

Benefits of Titusville Solar

Titusville will produce clean energy that will help the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania meet its clean energy goals. As one of the nation’s leading solar energy companies, Cypress Creek is committed to increasing access to low-cost solar energy while also creating jobs and generating local revenue.

• Economic Investment and Environmental Improvement

  • For the next 40 years, this land will remain protected from all other types of development and can be returned to its original state to be farmed in the future, should the landowner so choose.

  • Once the project is in service, there will be no change in traffic congestion, noise, emissions, odors, and demand on public services from the land for decades to come.

  • Based on guidance from the state and the Army Corps of Engineers, the Titusville Solar project will incorporate buffers of 50 feet from the streams on site, and 25 feet from all connected wetlands. Titusville Solar will also add a voluntary 20 foot setback from all other wetlands on site as a water quality buffer. These areas will be able to grow untouched, in contrast to the current land use which includes application of pesticides/herbicides. This will improve water quality and habitat conditions over time.

  • The project will make Route 8 safer by slowing the wind and snow drifts that blow through the open fields in the winter.

  • The steel piles on which the solar panels are mounted will be driven only up to 12 feet in the ground.

  • Titusville Solar expects to invest approximately $20 million into the project. Through this investment, Cherrytree can also expect spending of over $12 million in the local economy during construction, 40 full-time equivalent (FTE) local construction and installation jobs, and additional tax revenue over the lifetime of the project.

Solar Components and Decommissioning (End of Life)

Solar Module

Generate DC electricity from sunlight

DC/AC Inverter

Converts direct to alternating current

Module Racking

Mounts modules in array to the ground

Combiner Box

Low-voltage DC electricity is fed through cables from each module row to a combiner box

Monitoring System

Meters and gauges to measure and report system preferences

Battery System

Lithium ion batteries store the suns energy for use throughout the day

The Titusville solar project energy facility is a temporary land use, and all equipment and infrastructure is designed, manufactured, and installed to be temporary and easily removable at the end of the useful life of the facility. The facility will be removed at the expense of the project owner. Please note, Titusville Solar does not plan to include battery energy storage for this project.

Download Documents Specific to Powhatan Solar II and Cypress Creek Renewables

• Landscaping Rendering

• Titusville Solar FAQ

• Site Plan or preliminary map

• Pennsylvania Solar Jobs Census

• General FAQ

• General Technical Memo

Contact Information