CEP Renewables Establishes the Largest Landfill Solar Project in North America

Aug 19, 2021 08:18 PM ET
  • Solar designer aids recover a scenic northwest New Jersey community transitioning a Superfund site to a clean power generation plant that delivers an earnings stream.
CEP Renewables Establishes the Largest Landfill Solar Project in North America
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CEP Renewables LLC, a completed professional in the growth of solar energy plants on pointless land such as landfills, brownfields, Superfunds, and mining sites, will certainly begin construction on the largest solar project set up on a capped landfill in The United States and Canada. This 25.6 megawatt (dc) solar project situated in Mount Olive, New Jersey, transforms the previous Combe Fill up North Landfill Superfund site, right into an income-generating, tidy power producing asset. The Mt. Olive Solar Area will certainly supply clean power for over 4,000 residences, develop new jobs, as well as generate considerable tax bucks, together with enhancing the quality of the environment for the regional neighborhood.

" New Jersey Governor Murphy's devotion to continuing to progress New Jersey's management function in the renewable resource sector demonstrates foresight for the state's future, far better placing it financially as well as preparing it to stand up to climate-driven difficulties," stated Gary Cicero, Ceo of CEP Renewables. "The Mount Olive solar project will certainly contribute significantly to New Jersey's renewable energy required of 50% tidy power by 2030."

The Mount Olive property functioned as a landfill from 1966 to 1981. It was not appropriately closed when the owner went bankrupt as well as deserted the residential property in the early 1980s. In 1982, it was positioned on the USA Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Priorities Checklist of Superfund websites.

"The landfill had a lengthy as well as complex history that tested our neighborhood with ecological and also monetary hurdles. By taking the website via the redevelopment procedure, and also through partnership with designated redeveloper CEP Renewables, this website has actually come to be a version for brownfield as well as landfill redevelopment projects in New Jersey. The township will recover nearly $2.3 million in past taxes while at the same time transitioning the old landfill to a revenue-generating, tidy energy power plant. We're very proud of that hard-fought accomplishment," commented Robert Greenbaum, Mayor of Mount Olive Township, New Jersey.

Otherwise appropriately topped and also shut, landfills can come to be environmental risks that contaminate the surrounding land. If they are deserted by their drivers, districts, state, or government governments are delegated solve the problem of expenses to remedy the contamination and bring back the location. This can be a substantial drain on the regional area and also the state.

"EPA Superfund websites are exceptionally complex sites," claimed Alyssa Sarubbi, Project Manager for CEP Renewables. "They take an extraordinary amount of time, financial investment, and also sophisticated experience to bring from inception to affiliation. The company has the ability, experience, and perseverance to obtain these sorts of projects done." CEP Renewables has established and also energized over $200 million well worth of solar power generation projects making up over 450 acres in just the past three years.


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