Community Benefits
Hecate Energy believes in establishing beneficial, collaborative partnerships with communities that host our projects. By working closely with local stakeholders, we can tailor projects to maximize benefits and reduce impact.
- Fiddlehead Solar will provide long-term, sustainable revenue to support local and regional projects and services including schools, the fire department, and ambulance squad.
- Will generate a projected 250 construction jobs during peak construction.
- Significant private investment in impacted communities through tax revenue, wages, and indirect economic stimulus that will benefit local and regional building trades, restaurants, lodging, gas stations, and stores.
Environmental Benefits
The solar-powered electricity generated by the Fiddlehead Solar will offset generation from conventional emission producing sources, contributing to improved air quality.
- Capable of safely supplying enough renewable electricity per year to power approximately 27,000 average Michigan households.
- Energy from Fiddlehead Solar is projected to offset approximately 775,000 metric of carbon dioxide emissions annually, according to US EPAs Greenhouse Gas Equivalency calculator
Employment & Economic Opportunities
Fiddlehead Solar's investment will result in significant area economic stimulus including jobs created during construction and operations that will benefit local and regional building trades, restaurants, lodging, gas stations, and stores.
- Construction will create hundreds of local jobs and generate economic activity that will benefit area businesses.
- Power facilities have the potential to attract regional business development that are seeking to build large-scale manufacturing facilities powered by renewable energy.
- Utility-scale solar projects can be built more economically than smaller facilities, producing savings that can reduce the overall price of electricity.
- Solar power can moderate electricity prices year-round, but it is especially effective during high-prices summer peaks.
Clean Renewable Energy
Solar energy’s many attributes, including clean, quiet, emission-free electricity generation, make it the fastest-growing form of electric generation in the U.S. today.