DEPTFORD, NJ-The former Kinsley landfill, which once served as a landfill for Philadelphia's garbage, has been ranked as the top candidate for PSE&G's solar grid-supply program.
The Deptford Township site rated highest among more than 1,000 former garbage dumps and brownfields scoured by consultant Weston Solutions hired by PSE&G. The consultant identified 22 former landfills as possible candidates for PSE&G's Solar 4 All program, a $247-million investment over the next five years, according to njspotlight.com.
The program envisions building 42 megawatts of new solar capacity on the former dumps. Todd Hranicka, director of solar energy for PSE&G, said there were a number of reasons why the 140-acre Kinsley site ranked as the top site for the program. “It's large, it's flat, and it's got interconnection possibilities,'' he said.
The solar system at the Kinsley site could be as large as 8.2 megawatts, nearly twice as big as the largest solar system PSE&G has built on other brownfield sites. See story at njspotlight.com.
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