Nov262009
Distributed (but large) solar company isn’t a utility, says Maine
Filed under Alternative energy by david brooks at 1:40 pm
In April I posted about an intriguing idea from a company called Grid Solar, which wanted to put large-ish (2 MW) solar arrays throughout Maine, using land under or alongside existing power lines to avoid the difficulty of getting space.This plan, which would have required about 25 acres per site, put it somewhere between the usual extremes of solar power, which are distributed (lots of very small solar units on roofs) and centralized (honking big fields of panels or solar towers or the like) and was, so far as I know, unique.
Grid Solar wanted to be classified as a transmission and distribution utility, which would give them various legal rights - but the state PUC has just said “no,” saying it is a provider rather than a utility. A short AP story is here; I’m not sure whether the company will try to pursue the idea anyway.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:07 am
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