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Solar developers won approval Monday night for a 20-megawatt, 101-acre solar array in Lewiston that will use 1219 Sabattus St. as the main entrance.
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LEWISTON Old Mill Solar LLC won Planning Board approval Monday night for a 101-acre, $29.1 million solar array off Sabattus Street and the company hopes to start prepping the site this fall.
“We’re excited about the opportunity for solar in North America as well as here in Lewiston,” said Jon Gravel, vice president of North Light Energy, one of the two project partners. “It’s a quiet neighbor, and I think a great project and opportunity for the city of Lewiston.”
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An outline defines a natural resources survey around the proposed site of a new 20-megawatt solar array off Sabattus Street, noted top left, in Lewiston. The Boyle Associates survey is included in Old Mill Solar’s application in front of the Lewiston Planning Board.
LEWISTON Solar developers from New York have proposed a 20-megawatt, 101-acre solar array off of Sabattus Street.
The Planning Board will take up the $29.1 million project Monday night.
“This is by far the biggest solar project we have in Lewiston; most of the other projects we’ve approved are anywhere from 1 to 4 megawatts,” David Hediger, director of planning and code enforcement, said Friday.