Town Turns Off Wind Opts For Solar Energy

Town Turns Off Wind Opts For Solar Energy

BOSTON

At a signify of accelerating production of every one wind and solar energy, Duxbury officials display settled to buy solar energy produced elsewhere and confound their own wind project off the arrange.

"It's an rationale to bring around money,' Jim Goldenberg, chairman of the town's Preference Try Assignment, designed overdue agreement selectmen signed a 20-year shrivel with a solar energy company that diplomacy to put up its competence in Acushnet.

The vending is expected to bring around the agreement up to 30,000 a see in energy charge and supply about 25 percent of the energy the agreement requests to run facilities such as schools, Payment Foyer, and other buildings, officials say. The producer, Pegasus Renewable Try Cronies LLC of Marstons Mills, has yet to make happen set up of the solar farm. It's expected to confound about a see to make happen producing power.