Revision Energy presents landfill solar plan; Select Board declines to put lease authorization on warrant

Revision Energy representatives updated the Kingston Select Board on a proposed solar array for the town landfill and asked the board to put a warrant article on the upcoming town meeting ballot to authorize the select board to negotiate a lease if a financeable design is identified.

Revision Energy representative Mark Zenkel told the board the firm’s design submitted to Unitil calls for a roughly 4 megawatt AC (just under 5 megawatt DC) array covering the portions of the capped landfill suitable for panels. Zenkel said the design would include “about 88,100 solar panels” if built as shown and that Revision has completed wetland surveys and an initial interconnection application and paid for the utility’s study. He said a supplemental Unitil study seeking a lower-cost interconnection option was still under way and expected to finish in mid-to-late February.

“Once we get the final interconnection study, assuming there is a size of system that we think we can build and finance, our next…