Solar Powered Vote in Lyndon

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Created on Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:03
Written by Daniel Weiner

LYNDONVILLE - Solar power may be coming to Lyndonville very soon. With an upcoming vote that would bring the sun's ray power north from Massachusetts.

 

There is a public session for any potential questions on Thursday evening at 7 p.m at the Lyndon Municipal Building in its conference room with the Lyndonville Electric Department and the Lyndon Trustees. After the open forum is complete, the voters of Lyndonville will then be casting their ballots on the quarter century contract.

If approved, the initial project is expected to begin in the fall of 2014. The contract would last 25 years, and the prices would be $76 per megawatt hour mWh (or 7.2 cents per kWh) for the first ten years, and then $72/mWh for the final 15 years of the contract

If the vote passes the Lyndonville Electric Department plans to purchase power from solar projects in Massachusetts. Lyndonville has been offered up to 5% of their 2012 energy needs.

General Manager of Lyndonville electric Ken Mason said "The total peak output in Lyndonville is about 13.5 mW/h." If that were to hold steady, it would equate up to about 675 kw/h of solar power for the town of Lyndonville and it's surrounding communities.

According to the Caledonian Record, Mason said there is no risk in signing the contract because even if the project "doesn't come to fruition, we have no money invested other than our time."