What Do You Think of the Solar Panels PSE&G is Installing Around Town?
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Fair Lawn's Radburn community has been speaking with the Public Service Electric and Gas Company about the placement of solar panels within its borders, in light of historic and aesthetic concerns about the panels. So far, there are seven solar panels near Radburn School and others scattered around the borough.
Currently installing a solar unit on 200,000 utility poles in its service territory—which includes roughly 300 rural and suburban communities—PSE&G received regulatory approval in July 2009 for the project, which it calls "the largest pole-attached solar installation in the world."
What do you think of the solar panels PSE&G is installing around town? Are you worried that their appearance tarnishes the character of the community? Or, do you think benefits like decreasing our dependence on oil and potentially owering energy bills outweigh neighborhood aesthetics? Do you think the panels don't look all that bad anyway? Also, do you feel PSE&G should have consulted individual municipalities before installing the panels?
Respond in the "Leave A Comment" section below or email jacob.kamaras@patch.com.
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steve
10:31 am on Monday, March 14, 2011
First, don't like the fact that it's hovering right @ the entrance to my driveway especially with little children around. How do I know a gust of wind wont knock them down. Second, I learned from one of the guys installing them that he's from Texas getting $44 an hour. Thats great considering how many people in NJ are out of work & that once the jobs are done their money will not even be cycled back into this state.
Betty
4:00 pm on Monday, March 14, 2011
I say Bravo - we cannot deny that we must forge into the future...the past is past and we must keep up with technology. I think these classify us as modern and keeping up with the times
Harold Vogel
6:47 pm on Monday, March 14, 2011
Almost a quarter million panels through the state to make enough electricty for a little over 6500 homes??????????????????????????????
LENNY
11:40 am on Tuesday, March 15, 2011
HEY RADBURN SOLOR OR NUKE POWER! Just look at poor japan.
Mongo
1:54 am on Saturday, April 9, 2011
The idea is great. Except they should not be placed on telephone poles. Many of the panels will be shaded by the leaves when they grow in. The panels are also too low on the poles. At the intersection of Berdan and Plaza they mounted them crooked! What they should have done was utilize all of the industrial rooftops and the schools we have here in fair lawn. I'll bet all the panels in town would fit on top of all the roofs of the industrial sections and the schools.