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    Westchester County Community Solar & Storage Project offers 2.2 MW to power NYC Affordable Housing

    Dec. 15, 2021
    The 1.2-MW solar farm is combined with a 1,000kW (1 MW) battery storage system and will benefit the low-to-moderate income residents of the affordable housing developer of Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens.
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    EDPR NA Distributed Generation, a unit of EDP Renewables, has completed a 1.2MW community solar + storage project in Westchester County, New York.

    The solar farm is combined with a 1,000kW (1 MW) battery storage system and will benefit the low-to-moderate income residents of the affordable housing developer of Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens. The project was developed in collaboration with community solar marketplace PowerMarket and the Catholic Charities Progress of Peoples Development Corporation (CCPOPD).

    “Our efforts with EDPR NA DG go hand-in-hand with our commitment to affordable housing and climate change,” Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens’ CEO Msgr. Alfred LoPinto said. “This collaboration brings us one step closer to our goal of preserving affordable housing for low-income neighbors, reducing our carbon footprint and our energy costs, and investing capital savings into resiliency options and direct services for future generations.”

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    The solar and storage combination could generate enough power equivalent to an annual offset of 1,052 metric tons of carbon dioxide or carbons sequestered by 1,289 acres of U.S. forests in a year, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator. 

    The project is one of the first community solar + storage projects in New York and it contributes to the state’s new goal of achieving 10GW of distributed solar generation capacity by 2030. Another goal is to achieve 100% zero-emission electricity by 2040 and reduce CO2 footprint by at least 85% by 2050 from 1990 levels.

    EDPR NA DG has also developed 33 distributed generation projects for religious and charitable non-profit organizations in the US. 

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