Pearl River Solar Park | EDPR North America

Pearl River Solar Park will have an installed capacity of 175 megawatts (MW). Pearl River's generation will be equivalent to the consumption of more than 26,000 Mississippi homes.

Pearl River Solar Park will yield significant economic benefits to the community in the form of payments to landowners, local spending, and annual community investment.

Pearl River will disperse millions in cumulative payments to local governments through the life of the project. $50+ million in taxes will be paid to support local schools and community services. Hundreds of construction jobs will be created as well as approximately 2 permanent jobs.

Pearl River Solar Park would be compatible with other land uses and would provide a stable form of income to local landowners. Millions of dollars would be paid to the solar park’s landowners through the life of the project. These supportive landowners participate in long-term land agreements.

Pearl River Solar Park will consist of approximately 400,000 monofacial and bifacial tracking photovoltaic panels. The project will be sited on about 1750 acres. 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.