15-02-2025
Town of Lewiston approves site plan for Citrine solar facility
The Lewiston Town Board approved site plans for Citrine Solar's proposed facility in a former town landfill.
The approval was contingent on a host agreement that still has to be worked out and an access agreement to be notarized by Modern Disposal.
The Connecticut-based company wants to build a 2.5-megawatt commercial system on the closed landfill at 4746 Model City Road, next to Modern Disposal's Lewiston office. The solar panels would make up eight to 10 acres of the 29.5-acre site.
The site is owned by the Washuta family trust and zoned for industrial use. The town has limited any new solar farms to industrially zoned areas since this past August.
This array would be a community solar project under the Community Solar Power Program, with the power generated for National Grid. The amount of power generated would degrade by half a percent every year, with the panels still capable of producing 80% of its capacity after 20 years.
The decommissioning plan will last 30 years with Citrine paying the town $170,000 for the first year of operations, then increasing by 2.5% per year over the plan's course.
Citrine has worked on 15 arrays generating 37.32 megawatts of power across New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut, and California.
