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Largest solar array in the northeast goes online at BNL
Officials from the Long Island Power Authority, BP Solar International and Brookhaven National Laboratory gathered with elected officials today at the lab in Upton to flip the switch on the Long Island Solar Farm, a 32-megawatt, 164,312 solar panel installation.
Co-owned by BP Solar and MetLife through Long Island Solar Farm LLC, the facility will introduce approximately 50 gigawatt-hours-per-year of clean, Long Island-based renewable energy into LIPA's electric grid. This amount of solar energy is equivalent to the electrical consumption of roughly 4,500 households.