CEP Renewables, CS Power, Terrasmart, Lindsay Precast and NJR Clear Power Ventures have accomplished the biggest landfill photo voltaic venture in North America. The 25.6 MW DC photo voltaic venture is situated in Mount Olive, N.J. It has enabled the township to recoup practically $2.3 million in previous taxes whereas on the identical time transitioning the previous Combe Fill North Landfill Superfund website right into a revenue-generating, clear power asset.
“We’re happy to have been capable of work intently with our dependable, long-time companions to transform one more, beforehand unusable, landfill website right into a renewable power producing energy plant,” says Chris Ichter, govt vice chairman at CEP Renewables. “There are over 10,000 closed landfills in the USA, but solely a small fraction of those parcels have been redeveloped. Transitioning extra of those landfill websites into photo voltaic tasks will create extra native tax income, jobs, cleaner air, and inexpensive power for residents all through the nation.”
“We’re proud to have been chosen by CEP Renewables to offer our experience for this impactful landfill photo voltaic venture attributable to our monitor document of finishing these difficult tasks safely, on time and on finances,” feedback Mike Dillon, director of operations at CS Power. “That is our eighth venture with CEP Renewables, our seventh venture with Lindsay Precast and our fourteenth landfill photo voltaic venture with Terrasmart. Our sturdy partnerships with every of those business leaders additionally enabled us to effectively ship this high-quality landfill photo voltaic venture, which can present important monetary and environmental advantages to this neighborhood long-term.”
Along with the advantages supplied to the city, the massive dimension and the difficult nature of this capped landfill photo voltaic venture, the Mount Olive venture can also be notable in that it concerned the buying of the landfill by the use of the redevelopment and tax lien foreclosures course of. This construction was totally distinctive and resulted within the venture successful the 2021 Award for Innovation in Governance from the New Jersey League of Municipalities. The Mount Olive venture now serves as a mannequin for the myriad different closed landfill websites all through the U.S. – each when it comes to the redevelopment course of in addition to the design and development execution, whereas additionally offering larger tax income and extra inexpensive clear power for native communities.
NJR Clear Power Ventures will personal and function the Mount Olive photo voltaic facility long-term. CEP Renewables owns the land for this venture, which is being leased to NJR Clear Power Ventures.
