North American renewables investor Sammons Renewable Energy (SRE) has purchased a 194MW portfolio of utility-scale solar projects in North Carolina from developer Heelstone Energy Holdings.

Heelstone will continue to provide asset and operations management services to SRE for the entire portfolio.

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Will Owens, member of the board of managers and managing director of Heelstone, said: “As we look to the future, we are well positioned with our current pipeline to develop and bring additional solar PV projects to completion.”

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