New 6.4-MW community solar project will power Buffalo housing authority

• Militarize announced it commemorated the operation of its Amherst solar farm with a ribbon cutting participated in by local officials.

The 6.4-MW solar farm will produce the entirety of its clean energy on behalf of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority, which serves low-to-moderate earnings property clients. The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority project was enrolled by Ampion, a community solar subscription management company. Over 1,300 housing units are signed up for the Amherst solar farm.

The Amherst solar farm is assisting the Town of Amherst fulfill its role as a NYSERDA Clean Energy Community, contributing to New york city's goals of distributed solar generation, along with the demand for projects to benefit disadvantaged communities.

" We're proud to support New york city's efforts in constructing a clean, resistant and also inexpensive grid powered by renewable energy," said Steve Luker, CEO of Catalyze. "Community solar projects like Amherst offer the opportunity to supply reduced energy costs and renewable energy access to everyone, consisting of low-to-moderate earnings communities."

The solar farm likewise utilizes lamb, shepherded by a landowner of the Amherst community, to preserve the vegetation on site throughout the grazing season. This gives the landowner with a new resource of revenue too, while having marginal adverse effect on the solar site itself. In this way, this project offers the one-of-a-kind chance for Amherst homeowners to assert the advantages of a clean energy economic situation in a way that was previously inaccessible.