From: | Peter Strauss <petestrauss1@comcast.net> |
Date: | Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:24:59 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | Re: [CPEO-BIF] Linden Solar Farm, New Jersey |
The most interesting statistic that I got from reading this article is
that the expenditure of 1/2 billion dollars would be equivalent to
removing 2,800 cars from use for one year in terms of green house gas
(GHG) emissions. We have a long way to go!
Peter Strauss On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Lenny Siegel wrote: News Release Public Service Electric & Gas Company (PSE&G) December 1, 2010 PSE&G's Linden Solar Farm Turns a Brownfield GreenOnce unusable land will be home to more than 11,000 solar panels; all PSE&G electric customers will benefit from clean electricity when solar farm is completed this yearLINDEN, N.J. PRNewswire -- Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) is marking construction of its Linden Solar Farm on the doorstep of PSEG's Linden Generating Station. The 3.2-megawatt facility is one of four ground-mounted solar farms that PSE&G is developing as part of its $515 million Solar 4 All™ program. It is one of three solar farms being built on former brownfields that have been returned to a useful role.The Linden farm is one of more than 20 solar projects that PSE&G is developing through its Solar 4 All program, with a total investment of more than $140 million that will create almost 300 jobs and provide New Jersey with 30 megawatts of solar-generated power.... For the entire release, see http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/psegs-linden-solar-farm-turns-a-brownfield-green-111117384.html -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org |
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