The field near the Ticonderoga Car Wash was chosen because the district didn't have enough contiguous
property for a solar farm, school superintendent Dr. John McDonald Jr. said.
Not exact matches
National Grid and NextEra Energy, both private companies, have proposed to build the state's largest
solar farm for LIPA on the southern end of the
property.
The additional uses, which include commercial
solar farms, storage warehouses and other structures that some consider essential to modern agriculture, were approved by the Suffolk County Legislature on
properties for which Suffolk has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase «development rights.»
These
properties make the cells ideal
for things like windows or roofs, although they are probably less suitable
for large - scale commercial applications, such as
solar farms, because they need more area to produce the same amount of electricity as more typical silicon - based
solar cells.
The PNAS study shows us that those responsible
for the lands — governments, the forestry companies and
farms, the fishermen and
property developers — are just as important to achieving this as the
solar, wind and electric car businesses.»
There was a flurry of excitement about REITS and the
solar sector in recent months after San Francisco - based Renewable Energy Trust Capital Inc. asked the IRS
for a ruling on whether
solar farms could be classified as real
property.