Part of the Meadowlands study will be to find ways to finance the pilot project, which could cost $30 million. Commission officials estimate half of that cost could be paid through state rebates and grants and recouped over three to five years.
The commission also wants to explore the potential for business owners in the district -- which covers 10 Bergen County towns, including East Rutherford, Little Ferry and Lyndhurst, and four Hudson County towns, including Jersey City, Kearny and Secaucus -- to install their own solar energy systems.
Every time I drive down Cranbury Road through Jamesburg, I sigh and say to my husband ( a tollerant man, since I really do say this every time,) "I wish they'd put solar panels on top of all these warehouses. Think of what could be generated!" Ever since we went solar earlier this year and have reaped the benefits (finiancially, as well as the inner peace coming from walking the walk as well as talking the talk), I keep hoping others will step up and find the same solution. It looks like it may be coming!
New Jersey is second only to California in solar installations, mostly because of the very generous rebate program. If this plan in the Meadowlands works out, we would rival some European countries in our use of solar. Yay!!
(hat tip to jmelli at bluejersey.net for the Star-Ledger article)
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Makes a huge amount of sense to me. If only our governments would spnd less time forcing through anti-democratic voting reforms and more time pushing energy conservation, we wouldn't be beholden to a bunch of rogue nations that would just as soon see us dead.
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