“The sun is now producing about half the electricity used by the Schenectady County government each year, following the dedication Thursday of a third large solar array.
The latest 792,000-kilowatt solar farm is on Burdeck Street, on county-owned land that was once home to the Schenectady Homing Pigeon Club, adjacent to the Rotterdam Fire Training Center.
The Burdeck Street site joins similar-sized, county-owned arrays on Hetcheltown Road in Glenville and off Hillside Avenue in Niskayuna, all on county-owned land and all of which generate power that is used to offset energy bills for county government buildings. The Glenville site opened in 2015, and the Niskayuna site opened over the summer.
“We will be saving taxpayers thousands of dollars while reducing our carbon emissions,” said County Legislator Holly Vellano, C-Rotterdam, chairwoman of the county’s Environmental Conservation, Renewable Energy and Parks Committee.
With another array expected to open by the end of the year, County Attorney Chris Gardner said the county should start saving about $200,000 annually on its electric bill. The county’s total annual electric bill is about $1.3 million.
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Williams, Stephen. Schenectady Daily Gazette 12 October 2017.