Largest solar power project in New England planned for former Loring air base
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 Carl Flora, president of the Loring Development Authority, talks about the installation of hundreds of solar panels on the old air force base in September 2014. On Tuesday, the LDA announced a lease agreement with Yarmouth-based Ranger Solar for a project that would use more than 100,000 solar panels and could power between 20,000 and 30,000 homes. |
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LIMESTONE, Maine — The Loring Development Authority and Yarmouth-based Ranger Solar are moving ahead with a lease agreement that paves the way for New England’s largest solar power project. The LDA, which oversees the Loring Commerce Centre business park at the former Air Force Base, and the solar company announced the deal Tuesday. Under the agreement, Ranger would lease 600 acres of land at the Loring Commerce Centre for a solar panel array that could total 100 megawatts, making it the largest in Maine and New England. |
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on October 12, 2016 at 5:03pm
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Having been stationed at Loring, and having the chance to run survey lines on the former base and its once vast 53000 acres, it would not be a suitable location for an oil refinery, though the former base may be more suitable for power generation from oil since there was at one time 4 - 5 lines from Sears Island that supplied the former Base. There was also a large Coal fired Heating plant that supplied nearly if not the entire buildings of the base with heat via underground pipes. Though I am sure that those opportunities have been dismissed, or sold off to the lowest bidder, like the remaining approx 47,000 acres. ( JD Irving ???)
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Comment by arthur qwenk on October 12, 2016 at 4:54pm
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An oil refinery there as proposed by numerous politicians would make sense indeed for dense power potential and job creation. But, common sense is lacking in today's energy policy indeed.
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/07/03/business/bangor-natural-gas-p...
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