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).
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.
LISF will introduce approximately 50 gigawatt-hours per year of clean, Long Island-based renewable energy into LIPA’s electric grid. This amount of solar energy is equivalent to the electrical consumption of roughly 4,500 households.
Additionally, the project will eliminate more than 30,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year as well as large amounts of nitrogen oxide (NOX) and sulfur dioxide (SOX) and substantial amounts of other pollutants that would have been released into the atmosphere were the electricity to be generated from LIPA’s current Diesel and Natural Gas facilities.
We welcome the Long Island Solar Farm to our neighborhood.
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