Solar Panels to be Built Behind Municipal Building
They have been moved from the original spot in the police parking lot.
The county is planning to build solar panels over the detention basin behind the Somerset Regional Animal Shelter as an alternative to an original plan to build them over the police department parking lot. According to township engineer Robert Bogart, the county was initially planning to install solar panels over that parking lot at the municipal building, with the panels handling the energy consumption of the entire building. But, Bogart said, it was determined that that plan wouldn’t work. “There were issues of the affect of the lighting at the turf field there, with the shadow that the light fixtures would cast on the panels,” he said. County representatives discussed their new plan at the Jan. 8 planning board meeting to install the …
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