The new, three-acre solar farm is the largest in the state, consists of 1,650 PV panels, and will generate 625 megawatt hours a year, curbing escalating energy costs and reducing CO2 emissions by 340 tons per year, the company said.
Rick Schloesser, president and CEO, Toray Plastics, hosted the inauguration ceremony and officially launched the highly efficient renewable energy system.
Schloesser said: “This farm has been a dream of Toray Plastics America, and a personal one of mine, for the past three years. Its completion is a tribute to how government and business can come together to work toward a mutual goal.”
Funding for the solar farm was provided by Toray, grants from the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation’s Renewable Energy fund, and state and federal grants made possible by the Federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Source: Toray Plastics
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