Carver town seeks to put solar plant on Route 44 near Boston
By Robert Knox, Boston Globe Correspondent / September 4, 2008
Source. Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/09/04/
carver_seeks_to_put_solar_plant_on_route_44/
The town of Carver will ask state officials to consider its proposal to install a solar panel array along Route 44 to provide electricity for a town water-supply system. If the plan goes through, it would be the first time a state highway has hosted a solar power installation. A conceptual design calls for a rectangular assembly of solar panels 40 feet high and 325 feet long to be built on an embankment along a piece of the “new” Route 44 built several years ago. The site borders the Cole property in North Carver, which the town bought two years ago for conservation and to provide water for the town’s first municipal water system. (more…)