[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, ENERGY: Former [Loring] Maine Air Force Base To Host Large Solar Project

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Maine Air Force Base To Host Large Solar Project

by Joseph Bebon 
Solar Industry
October 12, 2016

Ranger Solar and the Loring Development Authority (LDA) have jointly announced the execution of a lease that paves the way for a large solar project at a former U.S. Air Force base in Maine.

The agreement allows Ranger Solar, a Yarmouth, Maine-based solar energy development company, to lease over 600 acres of land at Loring Commerce Centre, the site of the former Loring Air Force Base, for the purpose of operating a utility-scale solar energy project slated to be up to 100 MW in size.

Established by the State of Maine, the LDA acquired nearly 3,800 acres from the U.S. Air Force following the base’s closure in 1994, and the former base is now a multi-faceted business park. Ranger Solar says the site is ideal for solar because of the large tracts of open and previously developed land in close proximity to existing electrical and other support infrastructure.

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For the entire article, see
http://solarindustrymag.com/former-maine-air-force-base-to-host-large-solar-project

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