SNOW HILL – The Worcester County Commissioners approved plans for a utility scale solar project in Whaleyville following a public hearing Tuesday.
The commissioners voted 6-0 to approve the Gateway Solar Project, a 15.6 megawatt (AC) system to be built by Community Energy Solar Inc. on agricultural property owned by Tull Brothers LLC.
“We anticipate construction in the summer of 2018,” said Tom Anderson of Community Energy.
Anderson told the commissioners that since 2008, his company had developed 700 megawatts of solar energy projects in 10 states. In Whaleyville, he said the company had agreed to a 30-year lease that would allow for the construction of 52,000 solar panels on 130 acres of a 425 acre site. The agriculturally zoned property, which currently consists of farm land and some forested area, is on the north side of Route 50 just west of the Route 90 off-ramp and the southerly side of Route 346 across from the intersection with Circle Road.
Anderson said construction of the panels would take roughly four to five months. After that, there will be very little daily activity at the site. Anderson expects site visits to take place monthly during the first year of operation and after that only quarterly.
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This land will be a brownfield after the solar panels are done.
ReplyDeleteWho cuts the grass around all that crap and how much fuel does that take?
ReplyDelete6:11 is correct. It takes more energy in the form of mowing and herbicides than is ever generated b the solar panels.
ReplyDeleteAnd I want to know who does that electric benefit?
ReplyDeleteMore toxins in the solar panels then people realize. Shipped in by planes boats trucks traines and cars. Then shipped again to the business. Then shipped again to the job site. Then several trips in trucks and van back and forth to the job site. This happens over and over. It's takes a special disposal process when replacing the solar panels similar to hazmant materials this would involve more trucks... the big solar units are water cooled.
ReplyDeleteRaise sheep there and don't worry about mowing.
ReplyDeleteNot your land, not your problem. Move along.
ReplyDeletePlant wildflowers under the solar panels
ReplyDeleteRead the latest Delmarva Farmer newspaper
I just hope berlin doesn't take a liking to it as a cash cow.
ReplyDeleteThere is a roughly 50 acre site on MD US-13 across from the the Sharp Energy propane terminal south of Princess Anne that is presently being developed to generate electricity from solar. They began taking delivery of the parts for the frames to support solar panels last week.
ReplyDeleteSand Box John