[CPEO-BIF] Solar Field Park, former Marmon Foundry site, Coldwater, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Solar Field Park to provide clean energy to residents

By Christy Hart-Harris
Goldwater Daily Reporter (MI)
May 31, 2018 at 8:27 AM
 
 
COLDWATER - Toward the end of summer 2017, work began on the Coldwater Board of Public Utilities Solar Field Park — a 1.3 megawatt site — at the former Marmon Foundry site in Coldwater.

On Friday, key members of the project gathered for it’s official opening with a ribbon cutting.

After demolition of the foundry in 1990, the site remained untouched for 27 years. 

“That property housed an economic engine for Coldwater for a number of years, 50s, 60s, 70s; it had a purpose and a lot of value for a long time and things changed,” Said Paul Beckhusen, general manager of Michigan South Central Power Agency. “That property then became what is has been for the last nearly 30 years.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thedailyreporter.com/news/20180531/solar-field-park-to-provide-clean-energy-to-residents

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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