[CPEO-BIF] Solar landfill approved in North Providence, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

North Providence Energized By Solar Project

By TIM FAULKNER
ecoRI News (RI)
January 9, 2013

NORTH PROVIDENCE - Local solar energy got a boost Tuesday night from  
the Town Council.

At the urging of Mayor Charles Lombardi, the council voted  
unanimously to move ahead with a plan to consider dropping property  
taxes for the development of a solar array at the town’s old landfill.

Lombardi has implored the council for several months to move forward  
with the project, to take advantage of a state renewable energy  
incentive program - a program that would deliver reliable revenue to  
the town. Six solar developers responded to an initial inquiry to  
develop a 3-megawatt array on the 15-acres site.

Lombardi said the town would receive an annual fee from the owner of  
the solar array in lieu of taxes. Other proposed uses for the site,  
he said, such as a playground and wind turbines weren't viable due to  
noise and gas leaking from the former Superfund site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ecori.org/front-page-journal/2013/1/9/north-providence- 
energized-by-solar-project.html

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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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