Nesquehoning (PA) to become solar power (building "Pennsylvania Solar Park" — 10.6 MW PV farm)

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http://www.standardspeaker.com/articles/2008/08/08/news/hz_standspeak.20080808.a.pg1.hz08_carbonsolar_s1.1864216_top2.txt

Nesquehoning to become solar power

The largest solar energy farm east of Nevada is slated for construction in the Carbon County community of Nesquehoning.

BY MIA LIGHT
STAFF WRITER
Published: Friday, August 8, 2008 4:29 AM EDT

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Standing on an undeveloped 100-acre tract of land adjacent to the Green Acres Industrial Park on the west side of Nesquehoning Borough near Lake Hauto, state Rep. Keith McCall, D-122, on Thursday joined landowner John J. “Sonny” Kovatch, Jr., of Nesquehoning, and John Francis Curtis III, founder and “chief green executive” of Green Energy Capital Partners of Conshohocken, to announce that a 10.6 megawatt ground-mounted solar energy generating plant would be built on the site.

The facility will be the largest solar energy plant in Pennsylvania and one of the largest in the nation.

Dubbed “Pennsylvania Solar Park,” the solar farm will generate enough electricity to power 1,450 homes and eliminate more than 320,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions (the equivalent of planting more than 25,000 acres of trees) within 30 years of operation.

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Plans for the facility include installation of more than 900 solar trackers with 48 solar panels on each tracker. Unlike stationary solar panels, the tracking panels will pivot from east to west, following the track of the sun across the sky.

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1. The Solar Failure continues

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