From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:01:33 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] REUSE, ENERGY: Philadelphia (PA) Navy Yard solar |
Philadelphia brownfield to get solar power plant Former Philadelphia industrial site to be home to solar power plant that could power 200 homes Associated Press CNN Money April 29, 2008: It's not always sunny in Philadelphia, but the city is getting a solar power plant. Exelon Generation Co., a unit of Exelon Corp. in Chicago, is joining forces with Epuron LLC to build, operate and sell energy from the plant in South Philadelphia. At a cost of $8 million to $12 million, the 1- to 1.4-megawatt solar power plant will be built on six to eight acres of brownfields _ or idle, contaminated land. About 6,000 to 8,000 solar photovoltaic panels will generate enough juice to power 200 homes a year. The plant will break ground in the third quarter and should be up and running by year's end. Epuron will build the plant and Exelon will buy the electricity for release to the grid. ... The site of the new solar plant is in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The city has been enticing industrial, commercial, research and military companies to the shipyard since it closed in 1996. The 1,200-acre site in South Philadelphia is home to a commercial shipyard and corporate offices, plus a small fleet of retired Navy ships. ... For the entire story, see http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/12191af4fd796fb7c97e3a9c4c8fec83.htm -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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