MMWEC to build 30-acre solar project in Ludlow

• MMWEC, which stands for and also gives power for community energies around the state, will certainly build a 7-megawatt, $14.5 million solar array on 30 acres at its campus at the end of Moody Street.

The project will certainly create 13,400 megawatt hours a year-- or adequate power for 1,500 average residences, the energy said. Megawatt hours are an action of power generation gradually.

MMWEC, or the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co., intends to utilize a neighborhood financial institution to issue tax-exempt income bonds to fund the project, according to a news release.

The solar array will cover 30 acres of the 200-acre residential property. It's an area described as well-suited for solar.

The project fits in with the state's decarbonization goals. It also allows for municipal utilities that may not have suitable areas for solar projects to include more solar to their power portfolios, MMWEC said.

MMWEC claimed it is working with an agreement with EDF Renewables Distributed Solutions, Inc., as the project programmer. MMWEC said it intends to e use regional subcontractors in the project.

Building and construction is set up to begin this summer season, and also the project is expected to find online by late 2021.

Community energies situated in Boylston, Ipswich, Mansfield, Marblehead, Peabody as well as Wakefield are joining the project.

Energy Chief Executive Officer Ronald C. DeCurzio claimed in a prepared declaration that he's delighted to offer this project to MMWEC Members.

" The site chosen on MMWEC's university represents an excellent place for this kind of project," DeCurzio said. "We enjoy to be able to provide this opportunity to our Members seeking to increase their possession of carbon-free and also eco-friendly generation. This is yet an additional example of the ways MMWEC and also its Members utilize their joint action agency capacities of upright combination as well as project ownership to blaze a trail in integrating new carbon-free resources, dating back to the 1980s."

MMWEC already has a traditional nuclear power plant on the website in addition to a small solar array. MMWEC and also 16 of its member utilities possess Berkshire Wind Power Project, a 12-turbine, 19.6-megawatt wind ranch in Hancock.