A report in the Rutland Herald says that two companies, Encore Redevelopment and Arno Group, are offering a proposal to town officials to deploy solar panels on the site, which three decades ago was a Superfund site polluted by industrial dumping.
The newspaper quoted town manager Stuart Hurd as saying that solar panels at the site could "give us the opportunity to utilize this land in a more productive manner, make a small amount of money on it and generate some power that might be available to the town as well."
Elsewhere, a report from Vermont's WCAX-TV says that the site would contain 750 solar panels that would generate up to 150 kilowatts of electricity.
If this plan was to be developed, it would not be the first of its kind in the Northeast. For example, towns in neighboring Massachusetts are weighing their own proposals that would give new life to closed landfills by installing solar panels.
