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Solar Project Converts Cranberry Bog Into An Efficient Power Source

Repurposing airfields, building on landfills, and blending with cranberry bogs, Syncarpha Capital wants to change the energy scene. Syncarpha Capital’s aim is to transform the energy landscape by reducing or completely removing obstacles to the mass use of solar energy and energy storage in the United States.

Recently, a couple of community projects expressed their style. Belfast Solar I is now active and is the company’s sixth community solar project. It was just finished in Maine. Belfast Solar I was designed with environmental sustainability in mind, avoiding wetlands and adhering to Maine’s Stormwater Management Chapter 500. Belfast Solar I covers 13 acres of a 52-acre property and consists of three fixed-tilt, ground-mounted arrays with a total capacity of 4.6 MW DC/3.5 MW AC. It is expected to offset about 3,600 metric tons of CO2 emissions.

Now it is a cranberry bog that is sharing land. 

Read more in Clean Technica here.

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