Riverside Landfill Could Host Multi-Million-Dollar Solar Energy Farm
CME is moving in the direction of having a solar farm in Riverside.
Riverside is well on its way to saying so-long to the Forbes Street landfill and hello to a solar energy farm. Councilman Michael DiGoia spoke of the project at the previous East Providence City Council meeting last week, giving residents a look inside the how the process is unfolding. Early Friday evening, Bill Martin, president of CME, a Boston-based company specializing in green energy solutions, spoke by telephone of the upcoming project his company is handling. CME, which won a bid from the city, has already completed two main steps of the project, according to Martin: Initiating an interconnect study with National Grid – designed to determine the feasibility of the project from a power management standpoint – and attaining a zoning …
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Govstench
8:45 am on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
These green energy projects have dark sides to them. That dump has upset the normal drainage that used to flow into the cove near Willet Pond. Now it has caused flooding in the Meadowcrest neighborhood. The city fathers knew about this but did nothing about it. Will this company share a revenue stream with the city? Sell it's energy to the city or directly to NGrid? The net-metering scheme was a … more ›