[CPEO-BIF] Solar landfill in Kearny, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New Jersey's Newest Solar Farm Is a Real Dump
Large-scale solar project built on former landfill in Meadowlands  
produces enough power for up to 500 homes

By Tom Johnson
NJ Spotlight
May 9, 2012

The former Kearny garbage dump is a 66-acre plot of land, fallow for  
more than three decades, although practically within shouting  
distance of some of the most expensive real estate in the nation,  
with a bird’s eye view of the Manhattan skyline.

Today, it may be emblematic of a new chapter in New Jersey’s  
development, as Public Service Electric & Gas and others yesterday  
dedicated a new 3-megawatt solar farm on 13 acres of the former  
landfill, producing enough electricity to power up to 500 homes.

The $17.8 million solar farm project, a joint effort between PSE&G,  
the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, and SunDurance  
Energy, an Edison-based solar developer, is the first solar project  
built on a state-owned landfill.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/12/0508/2017/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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