Largest Non-Utility-Owned Solar Project on East Coast Officially Dedicated

May 16th, 2012 by Zachary Shahan

Lincoln Renewable Energy (LRE) recently held the official dedication ceremony for its 12.5-megawatt (MW) NJ Oak Solar power project. The solar power project, located in Cumberland County, N.J., includes approximately 53,000 solar panels and sits on a 100-acre site. “It is the largest non-utility-owned solar project east of the Mississippi,” the company states.

LRE is a solar and wind energy developer that “has raised more than $100 million in external financing to fund its growth and is developing more than 30 solar and wind projects in 11 states managed from offices in Chicago, Austin, Denver and Hoboken, N.J.”

For more information about the project, check out the LRE news release or the video above.

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majortom1981

The one at brookhaven national labs is run by BP solar not lipa and is 32 megawatts. SO it is bigger then the one in the article.

“Owned by BP Solar and Met Life, the LISF installation is part of the largest solar energy project in the state of New York, the largest photovoltaic array in the eastern U.S., and among the largest in the nation constructed on federal property”

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=1349&template=Today
Ross

There was an article a while back examining the total cost of generation and transmission which came out with a sweet-spot figure of about 5GW for local, distributed power generation.

So on the basis of this projects costs ($50 million, mentioned in video) a 5GW projection should cost, caveat emptor, about

= 50 * 5/12.5 = $20 million.