Eric Hartley: Green energy has to be a moneymaker

By ERIC HARTLEY, Staff Writer

Published 11/26/09

Local governments, which own huge swaths of land and lots of cars and buildings, are among the biggest users of energy around - and among the biggest polluters.

Now the county and the city of Annapolis are trying to set good examples for the rest of us by cutting their carbon footprints.

The city is considering proposals for a huge solar panel array and "biomass" energy facility at an old landfill, while the County Council approved a plan last week to cut the county's own energy use by 30 percent and convert methane gas produced at its Millersville landfill to energy.

If you're an environmentalist, all...

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hmmmm - 2009-11-26 01:14:32

"But already there are bigger plans in the works, like a feasibility study on a large solar field somewhere in the county separate from the city's"

There was someone trying to develop a solar field on the Gambrills Dairy Farm but the developer gave up because of the legal battles they would have to go through. In a way, this is a good thing as right now it is open space, and we all know there ain't too much of that around in this county.

Leopold has some pie in the sky plans to do a killer Park there but he has not much about lately.

Anyway, Maybe BGE could clean up its fly ash dump enough, once those legal battles are over and solarize that place. Bu really, the mall is pretty much a big scab on what was once good rural land, why can't we build solar panels on the roof tops ?

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