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County committee advances $18.9 million contract with CEP Renewables for landfill solar projects
Summary
A Cuyahoga County committee adopted a substitute to Resolution 20250326 and recommended second-reading passage with suspension to authorize contracts with CEP Renewables for a 6.5 MW Brooklyn landfill expansion and to include a placeholder for a Harvard Road landfill project; presenters cited federal grant funding, tax-credit timing and local environmental benefits.
Cuyahoga County officials advanced a time-sensitive contract with CEP Renewables on March 26, moving the measure to the full County Council with a recommendation for second-reading passage and suspension.
During a committee meeting, Valerie Katz, deputy administrator for Cuyahoga Green Energy, told members the substitute resolution would allow the county to enter contracts with CEP Renewables "not to exceed $18,900,000" to finance and construct a 6.5-megawatt expansion of the Brooklyn landfill solar array and to incorporate the Harvard Road landfill project if feasibility is confirmed. Katz said the Brooklyn Phase 2 work would add more than 12,000 domestically produced panels to a site that began producing power in 2018.
Katz said the Brooklyn build-out was estimated to cost $14,500,000, with roughly 60% (about $8.7 million) expected from Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) funds and the remainder (about $5.8 million) from direct-pay federal tax credits. She described the Brooklyn project as…
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