Trash Dump to Power Station: How a New Jersey Utility Captured the Sun

One day later this month, Public Service Electric and Gas customers throughout New Jersey will plug in the holiday lights and they'll flicker on with electricity generated at an old landfill in South Jersey.

The energy will come not from PSE&G's traditional fossil fuel plants, but a solar farm now being constructed on the site of the old L&D Landfill straddling Eastampton, Lumberton and Mount Holly.

Solar farms are not new to New Jersey, nor is locating them on old landfills. Including the L&D site, the state has eight landfill solar farms, said state Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Larry Hajna.

What makes the L&D site stand out is the size of the project and how much juice it will generate.

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