PSE&G's ILR Solar Farm in Service

NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- PSE&G announced today that its ILR Solar Farm is in service, supplying renewable energy directly to the utility's energy grid.  The 7.75 megawatt-dc universal solar power plant covers 21 acres of the closed ILR Landfill with 23,834 solar panels that will generate enough electricity to power more than 1,200 average-size New Jersey homes annually.

Industrial Land Reclaiming, Inc. owns the ILR Landfill and PSE&G will operate the solar farm as part of its Solar 4 All® program. 

"The development of universal solar projects like this one benefits New Jersey and our customers," said Courtney McCormick - vice president, renewables and energy solutions - PSE&G.  "Transforming this property into a solar power plant adds to New Jersey's renewable energy resources without reducing the state's open space, and connecting the solar panels directly to the PSE&G energy grid ensures that all of our electric customers share both the costs and the benefits of solar energy."

The ILR Solar Farm is one of 31 Solar 4 All universal solar power plants that are in service and the ninth built on a landfill or brownfield site. The Solar 4 All program has utilized more than 190 acres of landfill and brownfield space by installing more than 174,000 solar panels, capable of generating 52.5 megawatts-dc of solar energy, which is enough to power about 8,500 homes annually.

Since 2009, PSE&G has invested more than $500 million on the Solar 4 All program and created more than 2,000 jobs. PSE&G estimates that at the height of construction, there were approximately 70 people onsite working on the ILR Solar Farm in a range of jobs, including dock builders, electricians, engineers, heavy equipment operators, ironworkers and laborers.

Vanguard Energy Partners of Branchburg, N.J., a national solar construction firm, was the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the ILR Solar Farm.

Solar 4 All is a 158 megawatt-dc program that utilizes rooftops, parking lots, utility poles and landfills/ brownfields for universal solar projects. There are currently 124 megawatts-dc in service. 

In November 2016, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved a second extension to the Solar 4 All program that authorizes PSE&G to invest up to $80 million over the next three years to build an additional 33 megawatts-dc of solar farms exclusively on landfills and brownfields in PSE&G's electric service territory.  PSE&G expects that the 33 megawatts-dc will be enough capacity for three or four additional solar farms.  By 2020, Solar 4 All will have 158 megawatts-dc in service, of which more than 85 megawatts-dc will be built on landfills and brownfields.

To learn more about the ILR Solar Farm go to https://energizepseg.com/

About PSE&G

Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) is New Jersey's oldest and largest regulated gas and electric delivery utility, serving nearly three-quarters of the state's population.  PSE&G is the winner of the ReliabilityOne Award for superior electric system reliability.  PSE&G is a subsidiary of Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (PSEG) (NYSE: PEG), a diversified energy company.

Want to know what's new at PSEG? Go to www.pseg.com/getnews and sign up to have our press releases sent right to your inbox.

Visit PSEG at:
www.pseg.com 
PSEG on Facebook 
PSEG on Twitter 
PSEG on LinkedIn 
ENERGIZE! blog 

SOURCE PSE&G

Related Links

http://www.pseg.com