If you live in Eastampton, Lumberton and Mount Holly, solar energy could now be bringing power to your home, and it’s coming straight from the grid. The power switch to the Public Service Electric & Gas Co.’s largest landfill-to-solar field in Burlington County was turned on, feeding clean energy to 2,000 average-size homes in those municipalities.
The public utility made the announcement last week that it connected the L&D Solar Farm- a 53-acre, 41,000-panel solar farm on Route 38 that once sat as a landfill – to the grid.
The site has been hooked up to the main grid for power since December, which was the company’s initial target for completion, PSE&G representative Fran Sullivan said.
According to utility officials, it’s the largest constructed by the company to date, and acts as an example of what can be done to transform unusable, decommissioned landfills into sources of renewable energy.