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Work Starts on Boston Rooftop Solar System
Developed and designed by the consortium of Rivermoor, Fischbach & Moore Electrical Group and Zapotec Energy, Inc., the 240KW project at Boston Water and Sewer Commission (BWSC) headquarters will connect to the NSTAR grid.
Awarded on 29 January, the complex project involves installing a 240KW solar photovoltaic system on the BWSC rooftop on Harrison Avenue in Boston.
Using Massachusetts' Solar Renewable Energy Credits, construction and installation of the $1.075 million project will take approximately three months and will create over 15 clean energy jobs for Massachusetts. When complete, the new solar energy system should produce 268,000 kilowatt hours of power annually, about seven per cent of the Commission's current power usage, which is the equivalent of planting 1,000 trees a year.
"We are proud to bring together a best-in-class financial and utility-scale solution to the BWSC that maximizes government incentives and solar renewable energy credits," said John Tourtelotte, Managing Director of Rivermoor Energy, which established the consortium of firms that ultimately won the City contract.
"Boston is taking a leadership role in the adoption of renewable energy technologies. We are very pleased to help advance jobs and green energy in Massachusetts."
"We look forward to delivering this differentiated, cost-effective and energy-efficient solar array for the Boston Water and Sewer Commission, and we congratulate NSTAR and its technical staff for its assistance in planning the interconnection to the electrical grid," said Paul Lyons, President of Cambridge, MA-based Zapotec Energy, Inc., which designed the solar energy system.
"It has been such a pleasure working with all of the collaborative partners on this project and we are so excited to see another clean, renewable energy project plugging into the NSTAR system," said Tom May, Chairman, President and CEO of Boston-based NSTAR, the largest Massachusetts-based, investor-owned electric utility.
"We applaud Mayor Menino's work to make Boston a truly green city. The BWSC solar installation is the perfect example of how renewable energy projects can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and benefit the local economy at the same time."
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