Encore Renewable Energy completes two brownfield solar projects in Vermont
- Encore Renewable Energy and Vermont Electric Cooperative introduced the commissioning of two new solar projects consisting of 4.5 MW of new, clean power generation in Jericho, Vermont.
The two new solar arrays consist of a 2.3-MW project on the town's former gravel pit and also a 2.2-MW project on the former municipal landfill. These new selections sustain VEC's goals of attaining a 100% sustainable power supply by 2030 as well as represent the fourth as well as 5th utility-scale solar projects appointed by VEC, 4 of which have actually been established in cooperation with Encore Renewable Energy.
The Jericho Landfill that offered the area for decades was shut as well as covered in 1992. The Jericho gravel pit provided a resource of gravel for town roadways for years also. Using these two favored sites for solar power generation, as defined by the State of Vermont, enable additional land within the town to continue to be preserved or to be utilized for other greater and better usages including housing and agriculture.
" Making use of otherwise undevelopable property for renewable energy and therefore turning brownfields into brightfields goes to its core a triple bottom line venture," stated Chad Farrell, owner and chief executive officer of Encore Renewable Energy. "Our group leveraged our collective proficiency, experience and resolution to deal with the really actual challenges of establishing solar arrays on these sorts of homes, ultimately supplying two projects that provide benefits to the neighborhood area while additionally giving the Vermont Electric
Cooperative with an affordable resource of renewable energy for its members."
