NJR Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), the renewable vitality subsidiary of New Jersey Sources, accomplished the development of a brand new 25.6-MW photo voltaic mission — one of many largest capped landfill photo voltaic arrays in North America and the most important in New Jersey. Positioned on the location of the previous Combe Fill North Landfill in Mount Olive, the ground-mounted photo voltaic array consists of roughly 56,900 photo voltaic panels and can present sufficient clear vitality to energy over 4,000 properties yearly.
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“NJR Clear Vitality Ventures is dedicated to constructing a clear vitality future with tasks just like the Mount Olive photo voltaic subject,” stated Steve Westhoven, President and CEO of New Jersey Sources. “By repurposing landfills and different underutilized areas to supply clear, renewable vitality, NJR helps to energy a shiny, sustainable future, as we speak and delivering clear vitality improvements that drive New Jersey towards our clear vitality objectives.”
Closed for practically 4 many years, the Mount Olive property operated as a landfill from 1966 to 1981. In 1982, it was positioned on the US Environmental Safety Company’s (EPA) Nationwide Priorities Record of Superfund websites. Overlaying 102 acres of underutilized brownfield, the clear energy produced on the Mt. Olive photo voltaic subject will feed into the native distribution system and be bought into the wholesale vitality market via regional electrical grid operator PJM Interconnection.
The mission was designed, engineered and permitted by CEP Renewables, a developer of grid-connected, utility-scale photo voltaic tasks with experience in land unsuited for growth, equivalent to landfills, brownfields and Superfunds, to generate clear energy. The landfill array was constructed by CS Energy utilizing union labor.
“With world experience and confirmed remediation, engineering and allowing methods, CEP Renewables is a premier photo voltaic developer,” stated Robert Pohlman, VP of company technique at CEV. “NJR Clear Vitality Ventures has lengthy supported state coverage to prioritize underutilized land and produce complicated photo voltaic tasks — from conception to energization — to {the marketplace}.”
CEV owns and can function the ability. A pacesetter within the photo voltaic market, CEV has invested over $1 billion in residential and business photo voltaic tasks all through New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. With its portfolio of photo voltaic belongings, CEV operates over 386 MW of put in capability, or sufficient clear vitality to energy roughly 65,000 properties.
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