“Parking lots at the public golf course and high school will soon be covered by solar panels, offering shade and shelter for cars while drivers work on their respective courses.
Those are ancillary benefits of the two massive solar arrays that were unanimously approved by the planning board on Tuesday, May 18.
Specifically, the planning board granted special permits to allow Distributed Solar Development (DSD) of Schenectady, New York, to build two solar canopies over most of the Sandwich High School parking lot; and at the parking lot and golf cart storage area at Sandwich Hollows Golf Club.
The two “dual slope” canopies (1,880-kilowatt and 1,050-kilowatt) at the high school will cover about four acres, said Joshua Burdett, solar development manager for DSD, which is owned by BlackRock.
DSD also recently built the solar canopy at the new Sandwich Police Department headquarters on Quaker Meetinghouse/Cotuit roads and has built similar complexes in Mashpee, Brewster, Harwich, Orleans and Yarmouth, Mr. Burdett told the planning board.”
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Woolfe, Tao. The Sandwich Enterprise 19 May 2021.