Construction begins on Pennsylvania’s largest solar farm
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The retail-marketing division of Community Energy Solar’s parent, Radnor, Pa.-based Community Energy Inc., has committed to buying power from the project. So has Exelon Generation, the Kennett Square, Pa., subsidiary of Chicago-based Exelon Corp. Both also helped finance the project.
Other customers for power from the Keystone Solar Project include the Philadelphia Philliesand Franklin and Marshall College, which is located in Lancaster.
GroSolar of White River Junction, Vt., is the general contractor on the project, which is targeted for a fall completion. About 50 construction, electrical, and other jobs are expected to be created at the site this summer.
In a news release, Community Energy Solar said that the project’s solar panels are being installed on driven posts without concrete to avoid soil disturbance. Cover vegetation will be used to preserve and improve organic soil content.
