Riverstart Solar Park | EDPR North America

Riverstart Solar Park has an installed capacity of 200 megawatts (MW). Riverstart's generation is equivalent to the consumption of more than 36,000 Indiana homes.

Riverstart Solar Park yields significant economic benefits to the community in the form of payments to landowners, local spending, and annual community investment.

Riverstart represents a capital investment of approximately $180 million and will disperse millions in property tax payments to local governments and school districts over the life of the project. The project created approximately 700 full-time equivalent jobs during construction and 5 permanent jobs during the life of the project. Through the project’s lifecycle, millions of dollars will be spent within 50 miles of the solar park.

Riverstart Solar Park is compatible with other land uses and will provide a stable form of income to local landowners. More than $54 million will be paid to the solar park’s landowners through the life of the project. These supportive landowners participate in long-term lease agreements.

Riverstart Solar Park consists of thousands of photovoltaic solar panels mounted on a single-axis tracking system for a combined output of 200 MW. Photovoltaic solar cells have no moving parts and convert sunlight directly into electricity via the photoelectric effect. This direct-current electricity is then collected, transformed into alternating-current, and finally enters the electrical grid through a substation after being converted to the proper voltage.