Largest-ever Mass. brownfield solar array completed
Courtesy Borrego Solar
The solar arrays over the Palmer airfield dwarf nearby houses.
The largest solar array ever to be situated over a brownfield in Massachusetts has been completed and is now set to serve Central Massachusetts communities and organizations.
The 6 MW solar array was built at the Palmer Airfield by Borrego Solar, Syncarpha Capital and Renewable Energy Massachusetts. The array was part of the airport's cleanup operations.
The Town of Palmer, a designated Green Community, will receive real and personal property tax revenue of approximately $2 million over the project's 20 year term. Three public entities – the town of Leicester, the town of Spencer, and Worcester State University, will together purchase all of the net metering credits from the energy generated by the project, estimated to result in millions of dollars in energy savings over the course of the agreements.
“Not only will multiple public sector entities benefit financially and directly from this project, but, in addition, underutilized remediated brownfield land will now be used to provide positive environmental impact,” Cliff Chapman, managing partner at Syncarpha Capital, said in a statement.
The SREC II program was designed to promote the positive re-use of sites cleaned up under Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection supervision, attempting to build the use of brownfields for solar installations. The creators of this project said it is an indication of the opportunity and community benefits available by combining brownfields and solar.
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