Ameresco, the Framingham-based renewable energy company, said Wednesday that it completed a new solar project on a former Illinois brownfield site.
The company said that it installed a 2.62 megawatt solar system, consisting of more than 6,600 solar modules, on the site of a former General Motors Powertrain Division Plant in Danville, Illinois.
The project, which was completed in May, is expected to generate more than 3.6 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, and to offset more than 1,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide on an annual basis. That’s the equivalent of powering 350 Illinois homes and removing about 480 cars from the road, Ameresco said.
The project contributes to the Future Energy Jobs Act, an Illinois law that requires 2,700 megawatts of solar to be installed in the state by 2030. Two percent of those projects have to come from brownfield sites, like closed landfills, according to Ameresco.
