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<br />Enterprise Energy <br />2925 Dean Parkway, Execu8ve Suite 300 <br />Minneapolis, MN 55416 <br />(952) 212-0824 <br /> <br />5 <br />organized into rows from East to West and does not move. The fixed system produces less power, <br />but it more easily complies with setbacks and works better with the Stormwater Control Plan. The <br />Stormwater Control Plan also prompted us to move the access road and water filtration basin to <br />better catch water runoff from impervious surfaces. Drainage and flow patterns from surrounding <br />properties was addressed while amending the site plan. <br /> <br />Additional Studies: In addition to the abovementioned work, we also performed an FAA Glare <br />Analysis to determine if the project could potentially interfere with air traffic, as well as a <br />Geotechnical Field Soil Electric Resistivity Testing, which is a precursor to soil borings that have <br />been ordered. <br /> <br />Summary of Project: A Community Solar Garden is a solar power plant that allows people <br />who don’t have a good spot for solar panels to be treated by the electric utility as though these <br />solar panels are on their property. We lease land somewhere that is good for solar, such as this <br />parcel, and pay to develop and install the Community Solar Garden. When the array puts power <br />into the Grid, it receives a “bill credit” from the electric utility for that amount of power. The bill <br />credit is a right to take that same amount of power out of the electric grid somewhere else in the <br />same electric grid at no cost. We then sell the bill credit to the people who don’t have a good spot <br />for solar, thereby allowing them to save money through solar even though they don’t have a good <br />spot for solar panels. The people who buy the bill credits are referred to as the “subscribers” since <br />they subscribe to the Community Solar Garden by agreeing to buy the bill credits. <br /> <br />The application is for up to 1 MW (AC) Alternating Current of solar on the property. The <br />installation will consist of approximately three thousand solar panels per MW. The installation will <br />encumber approximately eight acres of land per MW and reach a height that will not exceed fifteen <br />feet above grade, approximately 5-10 feet. <br /> <br />The solar panels are screwed to a steel racking system that holds them in rows. The rows are <br />arranged into an immobile configuration from East to West, facing the South at an approximately <br />30-degree angle. The racking system is attached to driven I-beam that secures the installation to <br />the ground. The I-Beam is driving directly into the ground to a depth of approximately 7 feed and <br />does not require concrete footings. The racking and footings are within accepted processional <br />standards given the local soil and climate, and are professional engineered to withstand winds <br />exceeding 150 MPH.