Amazing maze: Allard Farm, Amherst/Hadley border
If you loved the view off Mill Valley Road in the summertime, a sea of green corn soaking up the sun under a radiant blue sky, you will probably not be pleased with this latest development. Yes, unlike Amherst, when Hadley announces a solar farm deal, it actually happens.
Allard Farm, yesterday
Of course it doesn't hurt that the prime instigator is the Hampshire Council of Government, a vestige of years gone by where small towns became members to use the power of co-op buying for discounts.
But now those discounts are more easily available on the Internet, without the high membership fee to HCOG.
So the HCOG has found a new service niche by morphing into a one stop discount energy provider.
This project by Nexamp will, on days when Mother Nature cooperates, generate 3 megawatts of energy. The deal with Hadley (besides the private deal hatched with Allard Farms) will provide a discount coupon worth 21 cents on the dollar payment towards their current electricity consumption.
In addition to this Nexamp project, BlueWave Capital has three solar arrays on the drawing board in Hadley. BlueWave you may remember is the company Amherst aligned with to construct a 4.75 megawatt facility on the old landfill off Belchertown Road, which would be the largest in the state.
That project came under heavy fire from nearby abutters, and has since gone dark.
But now those discounts are more easily available on the Internet, without the high membership fee to HCOG.
So the HCOG has found a new service niche by morphing into a one stop discount energy provider.
This project by Nexamp will, on days when Mother Nature cooperates, generate 3 megawatts of energy. The deal with Hadley (besides the private deal hatched with Allard Farms) will provide a discount coupon worth 21 cents on the dollar payment towards their current electricity consumption.
In addition to this Nexamp project, BlueWave Capital has three solar arrays on the drawing board in Hadley. BlueWave you may remember is the company Amherst aligned with to construct a 4.75 megawatt facility on the old landfill off Belchertown Road, which would be the largest in the state.
That project came under heavy fire from nearby abutters, and has since gone dark.
