Governor Patrick Flips The Switch at Westford Solar Park [View all]

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http://westford.patch.com/articles/governor-patrick-flips-the-switch-at-westford-solar-park

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Governor Deval Patrick and a host of local dignitaries were on hand for an appropriately sunny opening day at what is now Massachusetts’ largest privately owned operating solar facility: Westford Solar Park.

The facility, developed by Cathartes Investments and built by Nexamp of North Andover, is situated on 22 acres near Route 3 and 40 and is projected to produce up to 4.5 megawatts of energy, with an expected 100 million watts of energy over the course of its expected lifetime.

“We’ve had the good fortune to develop projects between dozens of municipalities across the Commonwealth, but Westford Solar Park in many respects is the most exciting and important project that we’ve developed,” said Jim Goldenberg, principal with Cathartes Investments. “Plants like this are the future of energy development. This is the future. Look around. We’re sitting in the middle of a utility scale power plant, and except for a generator, there’s no noise, and there’s no pollution.”

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