Standard Solar acquired this 5.7 MW community solar project on a landfill in Pennsville, New Jersey, advancing its efforts to transform brownfields into productive clean energy assets that help power municipal facilities and homes.
The project is producing approximately 8,000 MWh of clean energy every year. Sited within a Department of Energy-designated energy community, the system repurposed underused land to bring clean energy to the Town of Pennsville and its residents. For the past century, energy communities have carried an outsized share of pollution, including toxic coal ash and groundwater contamination. This project helps mitigate the local and regional environmental and economic effects of the past 60 years of operations of the closed Deepwater Generating Station.
Converting this landfill into a solar site meant reclaiming and repurposing the degraded land as a clean-energy hub. The plant is part of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Community Solar Program, an initiative that expands access to clean energy for state residents and fosters sustainable community development.
Trinasolar Development Solutions LLC, Trinasolar International System Business Unit’s American entity, developed this project, and Standard Solar serves as the project’s long-term owner and operator.
