Final Technical Report, City of Brockton Solar Brightfield: Deploying a Solar Array on a Brockton Brownfield
- City of Brockton, consultant to
The City of Brockton, Massachusetts sought to install New England’s largest solar array at a remediated brownfield site on Grove Street. The 425-kilowatt solar photovoltaic array – or “Brightfield” – was installed in an urban park setting along with interpretive displays to maximize the educational opportunities. The “Brightfield” project included 1,395 310-Watt solar panels connected in “strings” that span the otherwise unusable 3.7-acre site. The project demonstrated that it is both technically and economically feasible to install utility scale solar photovoltaics on a capped landfill site. The US Department of Energy conceived the Brightfields program in 2000, and Brockton’s Brightfield is the largest such installation nationwide. Brockton’s project demonstrated that while it was both technically and economically feasible to perform such a project, the implementation was extremely challenging due to the state policy barriers, difficulty obtaining grant funding, and level of sophistication required to perform the financing and secure required state approvals. This demonstration project can be used as a model for other communities that wish to implement “Brownfields to Brightfields” projects; 2) implementing utility scale solar creates economies of scale that can help to decrease costs of photovoltaics; 3) the project is an aesthetic, environmental, educational and economic asset for the City of Brockton.
- Research Organization:
- City of Brockton, MA
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE - Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG36-06GO86076
- OSTI ID:
- 912993
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/GO/86076-1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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