Gehrlicher Solar building 3MW plant on US landfill site

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Gehrlicher Solar America has held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 3MW PV power plant being built at a landfill site near the town of Scituate, Massachusetts.

The Scituate solar array will employ 10,560 PV modules and five inverters which together with the 1.5MWp wind turbine project commissioned in March 2012, makes of Scituate, MA, the first town in Commonwealth 100% powered by renewable energy, according to the company.

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Gehrlicher Solar America is building the plant in cooperation with Main Street Power, an owner and operator of solar assets, MS Solar Solutions, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley and with project developers Syncarpha Capital and Brightfields Development.

Gehrlicher Solar noted that it had completed 16MWp of projects in Massachusetts to date and had an additional 62MWp under construction and development.

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