512-acre solar farm proposed in Upper Pittsgrove Township (NJ)

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.nj.com/salem/index.ssf/2010/03/512-acre_solar_farm_proposed_i.html

512-acre solar farm proposed in Upper Pittsgrove Township

By Today's Sunbeam
March 13, 2010, 6:42PM
By Phil Dunn, [e-mail]

UPPER PITTSGROVE TWP. — Cropland here may see a new use in the near future after plans were submitted to the Upper Pittsgrove Township Planning Board to construct a 512-acre solar farm here.

The plans call for the solar farm to be spilt into two separate sections— an east site and west site. The land is currently owned by Ed Stella and will be leased to Atlantic Green Power based of Egg Harbor Township, officials say.

“We are talking about a total 72 Megawatts that will be generated,” said Richard M. Hluchan, Stella’s lawyer. “That is enough electricity to service 7,000 homes.”

The east site in total is comprised of 177 acres of farmland located near the intersection of Route 40 and Burlington Road. Ninety acres of that property will be used for solar panels, said Hluchan.

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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Death Valley.

:think:

[NNadir]

2. Oh good. We'll take perfectly good farmland here and pave it over with electronic waste.

I hope that my home is not one of the "7000 homes" in the bizarre unit of energy used by these kinds of scammers.

I'm fond of having electric power at night and in the weeks after snowstorms.

[jpak]

3. PV panels are not "electronic waste" - that's just plain stupid rhetoric

and are you fond of NJ nuclear plants killing endangered sea turtles and polluting NJ coastal waters?

yup - they do....

http://www.environmentnewjersey.org/legislature/testimony/clean-water/clean-water/oyster-creeek-nuclear-generating-station39s-pollution-of-nearby-waterways