Kevin Skudera of Colts Neck envisions a bright future for Brickyard Farm: He recently submitted an application to Howell Zoning Board to build a 15,000-panel solar project on the 161-acre property he owns on Birdsall Road.
Skudera says the farm stands to make about $500,000 a year on the $10 million, 10-acre, two-megawatt system. Most of that would be made through solar renewable energy certificates and energy sales; the project could power nearly 1,000 homes, he said.
"When you're growing corn or hay you're lucky to make a couple hundred dollars net profit on an acre," Skudera said. "Solar would be extremely more profitable than growing a commodity the energy itself is a true commodity.Free DIY Wholesale pet supplies Resource!"
He's not alone in believing renewable energy could be some farmers' next big crop. But as the number of renewable energy projects increase in New Jersey, so do preservationists' concerns those projects could steamroll over the Garden State's remaining farmland.
"We're losing farmland that could certainly be viable and has been viable, because of something else that has reared its ugly head ¨C the solar farms," said John Costigan, Howell's Preservation Task Force chairman. He said at least one other township farm that had been interested in preservation is now turning to solar. "It's industrial solar plating. It's going to be gravel roads going down that farmland (in order for workers to deal) with the solar plates; they're going to rip up that land and I don't know how we're going to get it back to (being) farmland."
Spurred by a soft development market, limited preservation dollars and a tough economy, renewable energy projects are popping up on farms all over the state.A glass bottle is a bottle created from glass. Two of those farm-turned-commercial projects Seabrook Farms and tomato grower AgMart Produce, known as Santa Sweets, both in Cumberland County,When the stone sits in the kidney stone, alone would generate a total of five megawatts of clean energy. A 100-acre,We also offer customized chicken coop. 20-megawatt, 71,700-panel Con Edison Development solar project on a farm in Pilesgrove Township, Salem County,is the 'solar panel revolution' upon us? is expected to power 5,100 homes.
Skudera says the farm stands to make about $500,000 a year on the $10 million, 10-acre, two-megawatt system. Most of that would be made through solar renewable energy certificates and energy sales; the project could power nearly 1,000 homes, he said.
"When you're growing corn or hay you're lucky to make a couple hundred dollars net profit on an acre," Skudera said. "Solar would be extremely more profitable than growing a commodity the energy itself is a true commodity.Free DIY Wholesale pet supplies Resource!"
He's not alone in believing renewable energy could be some farmers' next big crop. But as the number of renewable energy projects increase in New Jersey, so do preservationists' concerns those projects could steamroll over the Garden State's remaining farmland.
"We're losing farmland that could certainly be viable and has been viable, because of something else that has reared its ugly head ¨C the solar farms," said John Costigan, Howell's Preservation Task Force chairman. He said at least one other township farm that had been interested in preservation is now turning to solar. "It's industrial solar plating. It's going to be gravel roads going down that farmland (in order for workers to deal) with the solar plates; they're going to rip up that land and I don't know how we're going to get it back to (being) farmland."
Spurred by a soft development market, limited preservation dollars and a tough economy, renewable energy projects are popping up on farms all over the state.A glass bottle is a bottle created from glass. Two of those farm-turned-commercial projects Seabrook Farms and tomato grower AgMart Produce, known as Santa Sweets, both in Cumberland County,When the stone sits in the kidney stone, alone would generate a total of five megawatts of clean energy. A 100-acre,We also offer customized chicken coop. 20-megawatt, 71,700-panel Con Edison Development solar project on a farm in Pilesgrove Township, Salem County,is the 'solar panel revolution' upon us? is expected to power 5,100 homes.
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