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Falmouth sustainability staff details solar queue, DPU caps and 10 MW municipal allocation
Summary
At the Aug. 24 workshop the town's sustainability staff explained DPU and ISO New England caps, municipal 10-megawatt allocation (3 MW installed, ~7 MW remaining), and recommended prioritizing municipal rooftop and wastewater-site solar plus battery storage.
Stephanie (identified in the meeting transcript as the town's sustainability presenter) gave a technical briefing on solar policy, grid constraints and the town's pipeline of municipal renewable projects at the Select Board's Aug. 24 strategic workshop.
She told the board the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) lifted a two-year restriction on systems larger than 25 kilowatts but that infrastructure and allocation caps remain. "DPU... lifted…
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