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Solar array planned in Duanesburg

August 25, 2017 by l

 
“A Pennsylvania-based renewable energy company is planning a 2.5-megawatt solar array on vacant farmland that could produce enough electricity for about 1,500 customers.

RER Energy Group, of Reading, wants to construct the 15-acre facility on about 81 acres on Duanesburg Road, near Youngs and Gage roads. It would employ more than 8,200 southerly-facing solar panels.

Electricity from the project will be fed into the National Grid electrical network. Under community solar farm systems, people who buy into an array receive a credit toward their monthly utility bill.

This spring, the company opened a 4.1-megawatt solar farm for the city of Canandaigua, in Ontario County, that earned the city an award from the New York Conference of Mayors.

With more than 12,000 panels, that array is expected to save the citye $3.5 million in electricity costs during the next 25 years. It will provide enough energy to run City Hall, the police station, fire stations and other city-owned buildings.

Recently, the Duanesburg Town Planning Board voted that the local project would have no significant adverse environmental impact under the state Environmental Quality Review Act.

A study of glare from the array found that the array “presents no material glare risk to the community, neighboring viewsheds or roadway,” according to town planning documents.”
 
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Nearing, Brian. Times Union 25 August 2017.
 

Posted in: Duanesburg, Duanesburg News, Planning Board, RER Solar, Solar Tagged: Brian Nearing, Canandaigua, Cedar Falls, James Kurtz, National Grid, Ontario County, planning board, RER Energy Group, SEQR, Times Union
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