Tag: solar energy
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Floating solar system provides 100% of energy for Sayreville’s water treatment plant
SAYREVILLE – Ciel & Terre USA, in conjunction with Solar Renewable Energy and RETTEW, completed their Hydrelio floating solar solution for a 4.4MWp floating solar array on Sayreville’s pre-treatment water storage pond. This represents the largest floating solar array installed in North America to date, according to information provided by Ciel & Tierre. Wanting to…
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Six Flags unveils project that will power theme park with solar energy
JACKSON – Six Flags Great Adventure and KDC Solar have unveiled what is being called the state’s largest net-metered solar project, comprised of almost 60,000 solar panels, at the theme park on Route 537, Jackson. Six Flags Great Adventure partnered with KDC Solar on a 23.5-megawatt solar project, which was built and will be operated…
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Energy Savings Improvement Program comes to fruition in Howell school district
HOWELL – The Ardena Elementary School, Route 524, has become the first building in the Howell K-8 School District to generate power using solar energy. Because of that improvement, the school will have air conditioning for the first time in April. The Ardena school is the oldest building in the district. A ribbon cutting and…
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Lawrence zoning board approves application for carport with solar energy panels
Despite neighbors’ protests, the Lawrence Township Zoning Board of Adjustment has approved a use variance to permit the construction of a solar panel-covered carport in the parking lot at the Church of St. Ann on Lawrence Road. The zoning board approved the use variance in a 5-2 vote at a special meeting July 25. A…
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Plan to install solar panels at medical center passes muster with planning board
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Members of the Planning Board have directed their attorney to prepare a positive resolution for an application that proposed the construction of a solar panel array over the parking lots at CentraState Medical Center, West Main Street, Freehold Township. The board took its action on April 19 and the resolution will be…
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Firm seeks approval for solar panels over CentraState parking lots
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP – Testimony is expected to resume at 7 p.m. April 19 on an application that proposes the construction of a solar panel array over the parking lots at CentraState Medical Center, West Main Street. Attorney Keith A. Davis represented the applicant, KDC Solar CSCP, LLC, at the March 15 meeting of the Freehold…
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Howell council OKs solar energy facility at former landfill
HOWELL – The Township Council has authorized the installation of a solar energy collection facility at the former Waste Disposal Inc. solid waste sanitary landfill on Lakewood-Allenwood Road in Howell. Mayor Theresa Berger, Deputy Mayor Robert Nicastro, Councilman Bob Walsh and Councilwoman Evelyn O’Donnell passed the resolution on March 6. Councilwoman Pauline Smith was absent.…
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Official seeks support for solar farm in Howell
HOWELL – Deputy Mayor Robert Nicastro will ask his fellow members of the Township Council to support a plan put forth by Monmouth County to place solar energy panels at a former landfill in Howell. Nicastro said he and Jim Herrman, who is Howell’s director of community development, met with county representatives to discuss the former…
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Six Flags settles litigation, will advance solar energy project
JACKSON – A settlement among Six Flags Great Adventure and several environmental groups has been reached that will allow for the construction of a solar energy facility on land near the theme park in Jackson. The environmental groups that were involved in the litigation were the New Jersey Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, the New…