Cornerstone Power Development, a Chicago development company is preparing to build the fields covering 485 thousand square meters in the town of Coxsackie, New York.
Farm fields are not always built. With a capital of about U.S. $ 60 million, the field will be installing solar power plants first large scale that will produce electricity for 15 to 20 megawatts.
Projects in Coxsackie This also shows that even in New York, area with its famous cloudy weather, solar power plants remain functional.
We believe the sun is increasingly a resource that is very sensible, "said Daniel Somers, an executive of Cornerstone, as quoted from the Times-Union, Wednesday, July 28, 2010.
Cornerstone plans to build their solar power plants in agricultural areas, to facilitate the addition of land if required. The solar farm is estimated to have been able to produce energy in 2012.
Currently, the project construction of large-scale solar power plants are also being done in Long Island, New York. If successful, the installation of solar power plants on a larger scale will be built in the northeastern region of the United States.