Re: [CPEO-BIF] Linden Solar Farm, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Peter,

I interpreted the article differently than you did. I thought it implied 
that the $515 million would reduce greenhouse gas emissions the 
equivalent of removing 2,800 cars from the road EACH year.

There must be someone on this list who knows how to make these calculations.

Lenny


Peter Strauss wrote:
> 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 Green
> >
> >
> > Once 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 year
> >
> > LINDEN, 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 
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> > Lenny Siegel
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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>
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