“Our team leveraged our collective expertise, experience and determination to tackle the very real challenges of developing solar arrays on these types of properties, ultimately delivering two projects that offer benefits to the local community while also providing the Vermont Electric Cooperative with a cost-efficient source of renewable energy for its members.” “Utilizing otherwise undevelopable property for renewable energy and thus turning brownfields into brightfields is at its core a triple bottom line endeavor” said Chad Farrell, Founder and CEO of Encore Renewable Energy. Environmental Protection Agency, there are an estimated 450,000 brownfields in the United States.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that landfills and other contaminated sites – sometimes characterized as “brownfields” - cover 15 million acres across America, and an estimated 80,000 of those acres have already been prescreened for renewable energy development. The use of these two preferred sites for solar energy generation, as defined by the State of Vermont, allow for additional land within the town to continue to be conserved or to be utilized for other higher and better uses including housing and agriculture. The Jericho gravel pit provided a source of gravel for town roads for decades as well. The Jericho Landfill that served the community for decades was closed and capped in 1992. The project will also provide revenue for the Town of Jericho in the form of property taxes and annual lease payments for use of these otherwise undevelopable parcels. The two projects are expected to cumulatively produce approximately 5,200,000 kilowatt-hours per year, enough to power approximately 780 average homes in VEC territory annually.
Two New Solar Projects in Jericho, VT from Encore Renewable Energy on Vimeo.
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