Archive for November 22, 2011

Long Island Solar Farm

On November 18, 2011 the switch was flipped on at The Long Island Solar Farm (LISF), a joint project between Brookhaven National Lab, BP (British Petroleum) Solar, and MetLife through the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA).

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Made up of 164,312 solar panels, it is the largest photovoltaic (PV) array in the eastern U.S., rated at 32-megawatts (MW) capacity, with the smallest footprint for a solar array of its output. » Read more..