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Nautilus Solar Energy opens 2.8MW community solar farm on former US Army depot site

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Nautilus Solar Energy has inaugurated a 2.8 MW community solar farm on the Altamont municipal waste dump and burn pit, previously the Schenectady Army Depot in New York. This marks the first community solar project on a formerly used defence site (FUDS), set to provide clean energy to over 260 households.

Situated near the Northeastern Industrial Park in Guilderland, New York, the site, once a critical US Army facility from 1941 to 1969, has been transformed into a productive renewable energy location. The US Army Corps of Engineers managed environmental maintenance at the site under the Defense Environmental Restoration Programme for FUDS.

The solar farm uses a fixed-tilt ballasted system to protect the land’s structure, mounted on the vegetated landfill cap. The initiative is part of a broader effort in the US to repurpose former military sites for renewable energy. Recently, the US Department of Energy announced plans to work with Hecate Energy to convert the Hanford site, a former plutonium production site for the Manhattan Project, into a 1 GW solar farm with battery storage.

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