Solar plant to go up at Philadelphia Navy Yard

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, April, 2008 | by Tony Gnoffo Inquirer Staff Writer

A big solar-energy project at the Philadelphia Navy Yard was offered yesterday as the sort of innovation envisioned in a Rendell administration energy bill that has languished for months in a Senate committee in Harrisburg. The $11 million project would populate a desolate portion of the Navy Yard with a gleaming army of photovoltaic cells collecting enough energy from the sun to power about 200 households for a year.

It is the second such project driven by a collaboration of Peco's parent, Exelon Corp., and Epuron L.L.C., a subsidiary of the German energy company Conergy AG. Ground was broken last month for their first project, a $20 million solar-power station in Bucks County. At the announcement of the Philadelphia project yesterday, Kathleen A. McGinty, secretary of...