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From Garden State To Solar State

New Jersey explores rooftops, landfills and detention basins for photovoltaics

By Debra Hazel | Updated on May 16, 2011

To find at least part of the energy future of New Jersey, and perhaps the United States, an observer need look no further than Stafford Park. Currently rising in the coastal town of Stafford, the mixed-use development will feature one of the largest solar farms in the state, a 6.5-megawatt array that will produce 800 kilowatts of electricity. The LEED-certified development also includes 650,000 square feet of retail space, 112 affordable apartments, 216 market-rate units and 349 houses. Most of that space will receive its energy from photovoltaic cells. The project’s developer, the Walters Group, intends to provide power to a majority of the development, including the retail space, from the solar farm.

Among the tenants that have committed to Stafford Park’s retail component, which can grow by another 250,000 square feet, is Target. “We have a good chance of providing Target with 100% of its electricity, and we’re looking to connect the apartments to receive 100% of their energy from solar, including all the heating and cooling,” says Edward Walters Jr., founder and partner of the Barnegat-based Walters Group. “It probably will be the first apartment complex in the country that can say all of its electricity, heating and cooling come from solar.”

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