[CPEO-BIF] "Utility begins construction of grid-supply project at Parklands Landfill in Bordentown, " New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PSE&G Breaks Ground on 10-Megawatt Solar Farm, Its Largest Yet

by Tom Johnson
NJ Spotlight
September 25, 2014

Utility begins construction of grid-supply project at Parklands  
Landfill in Bordentown, avoids use of farmland or open space

Public Service Electric & Gas yesterday began building a 10.14- 
megawatt solar farm at the closed Parklands Landfill in Bordentown,  
which will be the biggest system of solar arrays yet to be built in  
New Jersey by the utility.

The solar system at the capped former garbage dump complies with an  
initiative that aims to shift large grid-supply projects, which  
deliver power directly to the grid, to landfills and brownfields. The  
latter are unused manufacturing sites that remain idle, in some cases  
because the expense of cleaning up pollution on the property.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/09/24/pse-g-breaks-ground-on-10- 
megawatt-solar-farm-its-largest-yet/

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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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