NORTH PROVIDENCE — It’s hard these days to find a solar farm in Rhode Island that everybody can like, what with the debate over clearing forestland to make way for vast fields of photovoltaic panels in rural parts of the state.
But if there is an ideal, the 2.6-megawatt array on a closed landfill here may be an example.
For one, the project built by Warwick-based Southern Sky Renewable Energy is on 12 acres of contaminated land that couldn’t be used for anything else. For another, it’s out of the way and ringed by trees, making it hard to see from nearby homes.