In the empty fields south of Nantucket Memorial Airport, the island’s next big renewable-energy project is being designed to power the second-busiest airport in Massachusetts.
A contract for a 1-megawatt solar photovoltaic installation, covering eight to 10 acres of vacant land along the southern airport fence near Maddequecham Valley Road, will soon land on the Airport Commission’s table.
With the Nantucket High School wind turbine up and running for the past year, and the town forging ahead with a plan for an even larger turbine at the Madaket landfill, the airport is considering jumping into the renewable-energy game with an India-based company, Lanco Solar International, a subsidiary of Lanco Infratech Limited.
Lanco was one of three companies to respond to the airport’s request for proposals for a solar-energy project, and the company’s bid was recommended by consultant Robert Patterson as the most competitive and advantageous. The Airport Commission voted unanimously last week to have Patterson develop a contract with Lanco that will be considered at a future meeting.
While Lanco is a large global company involved in both traditional and renewable-energy developments, infrastructure projects and coal-mining, it has not completed a solar project similar to the one proposed on Nantucket elsewhere in the United States, Patterson said, although there are a few others in the works in New Jersey.
20/10/11 Jason Graziadei/The Inquirer and Mirror
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