New York's Long Island to add 100 MW of solar generation
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As part of a new auction, PSEG Long Island has set the final bid price of $0.1688 per kilowatt hour for PV systems of various sizes that are expected to be constructed across Long Island.
PSEG Long Island received 178 proposals from 55 separate entities reflecting a broad range of proposed bids. Utilities group PSEG Long Island in the U.S. state of New York has announced the results for the second Clean Solar Initiative in Long Island.
The feed-in-tariff program builds upon the Long Island Power Authority's first feed-in tariff for solar energy and is designed to bring an additional 100 MW of solar energy to Long Island, part of the New York metropolitan area that comprises the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens as well as the state counties of Nassau, and Suffolk.
After a four-month application period that ended on Jan. 31, 2014, PSEG Long Island received 178 proposals from 55 separate entities reflecting a broad range of proposed bids.
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