Mary Ellen Gambon
walpole@wickedlocal.com
The Walpole Select Board voted 5-0 at its May 11 meeting to enter into an agreement to share an energy manager with the towns of Norwood and Sharon, combining their resources to create a full-time position to find more ways to use renewable energy.
Walpole Town Administrator Jim Johnson explained at the Select Board meeting that a $40,000 request was placed at Town Meeting to share an energy manager with the towns of Norwood and Sharon.
A position for a part-time energy manager was created in 2019, when Norwood was designated as a Green Community. Sharon had received its designation two years prior. The full-time position would go into effect on July 1.
US renewables developer Greenbacker has broken ground on an 80MW utility-scale solar project in Utah.
RPlus Energies is constructing the Graphite Solar 1 plant in Carbon County, which will be one of the largest solar plants in Greenbacker’s nationwide portfolio.
Greenbacker purchased the pre-operational solar project from rPlus Energies in December 2020 and contracted rPlus to continue to develop the project through construction.
The plant will contribute renewable power to Facebook’s new data centre in Eagle Mountain, Utah.
The ground breaking follows Greenbacker’s announcement in March that it had completed construction of the 61MW Turquoise solar project in Washoe County, Nevada, that supplies clean energy to Apple’s data centre in the Reno Technology Park.
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