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Representative Projects
CME Energy has successfully been a key player in development of electric power projects on four continents. By combining a community-oriented approach and environmental sensitivity with technical and financial acumen, CME Energy generates solutions that benefit both localities and partners.
List of Projects
CME Energy, in conjunction with Hecate Energy, developed the 3.7 MW Forbes Street Solar Project on a closed landfill in East Providence, Rhode Island. Completed in December 2013, phase I of the Forbes Street solar plant currently delivers clean electricity to thousands of people in Rhode Island, through energy sales to National Grid under a 20-year power purchase agreement. The developers, CME and Hecate also signed 20-year PPA with National Grid to expand the project with phase II for an additional 3 MW at the East Providence landfill.
CME partnered with Pure Energy to form the development company, North America Project Development, LLC to build the Oregon Clean Energy Center, an 869 MW (Peak: 951 MW) natural gas-fired electric power plant in Oregon, Ohio. The project construction began in November 2014 and began commercial operations in June 2017. The project is capable of producing up to 961 MW.
The Forbes Street Solar Project II is nearly a duplicate project to phase I also capable of generating 3 MW on the retired landfill in East Providence, Rhode Island. Developed by CME Energy and Hecate Energy, Forbes Street Solar Project II is expected to produce approximately 5,350 megawatt-hours of electricity annually, enough energy to serve nearly 500 Rhode Island households with its 12,296 ground-mounted solar panels. On November 29, 2018, the ribbon cutting celebrating the opening of the solar project coincided with the initial injection of electricity into the grid. Under a 20-year PPA with National Grid, the solar plant will provide electricity to customers of Narragansett Electric Co., a subsidiary of National Grid.
Forbes Street Solar Project II was recently recognized by Grow Smart Rhode Island as an outstanding Smart Growth Project, which described the project as "an excellent example of reusing developed and disturbed sites for renewable energy, while avoiding the loss of RI's natural resources." The first Forbes Street Solar project received the 2015 Rhode Island Clean Energy Future Award and was named the best renewable project in the state.
CME Energy is a 50 percent owner alongside longtime colleague William Siderewicz of Clean Energy Future – Oregon, a 955 MW gas-fired combined-cycle electric generating facility in Oregon, Ohio. The Clean Energy Future Oregon project is in the permitting process and commercial operation is anticipated to begin in 2020. Fluor Corporation is constructing the project and will begin construction in early 2018. The dual generators will provide electricity to 1.8 million homes.
In 2001, CME Energy developed the Fremont Energy Center with Calpine Energy in Fremont, Ohio. This 707 MW combined cycle, natural gas power plant is now owned and operated by American Municipal Power, producing cost effective, clean energy for their memberships.
CME Energy led the development of the El Biban power project in Zarzis, Tunisia with partners Caterpillar Power Ventures International and Centurion Energy. The 27 MW cogeneration electric power plant was the first independent power project and the first carbon capture power plant in Africa.
CME Energy advised U.S.-based asset manager Scudder, Stevens and Clark on three successful investments in Latin America, including the development of the region’s first independent power project.
CME Energy and Cornerstone Power Development, a joint development partner, conducted a study of a solar application on the Rhode Island Convention Center in 2010.
CME Energy worked with its subcontractor, RW Beck, to evaluate the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s cogeneration facility’s technical and operational issues and to correct interface problems with Cambridge Electric. CME Energy and RW Beck were able to successfully resolve all technical, operational and interface difficulties.
Oregon Energy Center, jointly owned by CME Energy, will be a 955-MW natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power plant in Lucas County, Ohio. Clean Energy Future-Oregon LLC, a subsidiary of Clean Energy Future, will build the Oregon Energy Center.
The new plant is expected to create up to 1,000 construction jobs for local union contractors, and be fully functional by 2020. Oregon Energy Center’s output will be able to generate enough electricity to serve 900,000 homes in Ohio. It is the 12th natural-gas facility of its kind in Ohio.
This new large gas-fired power plant is in addition to CME Energy’s development of its 869-MW Oregon Clean Energy Project, which began commercial operation in 2017.