CEP Renewables and CS Power have began development on the ten MW BEMS neighborhood photo voltaic landfill challenge, positioned on the Huge Hill Landfill in Southampton, N.J.
Consisting of two co-located 5 MW photo voltaic methods that span throughout two utility territories, this challenge will make the most of the ballasted photo voltaic racking resolution from Terrasmart. Past changing beforehand unusable land to a clear power producing asset, the challenge will even serve low-to-moderate revenue residents and can allow the township to recoup 40 years of again taxes and curiosity. Building of this challenge is predicted to be full by Could 2023.
“We’re excited to have the ability to construct upon the success of our redevelopment challenge in Mount Olive, New Jersey – the biggest photo voltaic landfill challenge in North America, by using the same course of with this challenge,” says Chris Ichter, govt vp at CEP Renewables.
As with the Mount Olive challenge, the BEMS challenge was additionally bought by means of the redevelopment and tax lien foreclosures course of – a construction that was solely distinctive earlier than the Mount Olive challenge. The Huge Hill landfill website in Southampton had been lengthy deserted by its former proprietor, ensuing within the website accruing hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in tax liens. As a part of the public-private partnership between CEP and the Township of Southampton, CEP acquired the tax liens from the township, paying again all past-due taxes within the course of, and foreclosed on the landfill property. CEP is now the proprietor of this landfill website, and the township, in the meantime, has been in a position to recoup almost 40 years of again taxes and curiosity.
“We’re proud that CEP Renewables has chosen us to supply our experience for this impactful landfill photo voltaic challenge as a consequence of our confirmed means to finish these difficult tasks safely and cheaply,” feedback Michael Dillon, director of operations at CS Power. “We sit up for working alongside CEP Renewables to transform a beforehand unusable website right into a photo voltaic producing discipline that can present substantial environmental and monetary advantages to this local people.”
This BEMS challenge represents simply certainly one of 16 landfill or brownfield tasks that CEP at present has below improvement.
