From left: Ossining Supervisor Dana Levenberg; Adriane Pizzuti, Maryknoll’s director of HR services, and Father Raymond Finch, Maryknoll’s superior general, at the May 4, 2021, groundbreaking. Photo by Robert Brum
A giant crane-mounted corkscrew was the center of attention during the recent groundbreaking of Maryknoll’s solar power project, which will install more than 2,000 energy-generating panels on the Ossining campus.
The enormous piece of apparatus that looked like it could bore down to the Earth’s core is being used to drill 14 feet below ground to accommodate the foundations for six canopies on two parking lots at the Ryder Road campus.
Maryknoll (Photo: Ecogy Energy)
An Ossining-based Catholic missionary group is looking to the heavens to reflect its commitment to protecting the Earth.
Groundbreaking is scheduled for April 19 at the
Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers’ Ryder Road campus on what will likely be the largest canopy solar installation in Westchester County and the first community solar project in the
Town of Ossining.
The installation’s 874-kilowatt capacity is enough to power between 100 and 200 households and will include 2,184 solar panels mounted on six canopies covering Maryknoll’s two parking lots.
The tilted canopies will range in height from 13.6 feet on the low end high enough to allow fire trucks and school buses to pass underneath to about 21 feet, according to