Solar developers see treasure in old trash dumps

The headquarters of Windham Solid Waste Management District off Old Ferry Road in Brattleboro, where officials are pursuing development of a 5 megawatt solar array on a closed landfill. Photo by Mike Faher/VTDiggerBRATTLEBORO – In some Vermont towns, old landfills have become hot commodities.
Spurred in part by the state’s new net-metering rules, solar developers are scrambling to build photovoltaic arrays on closed, capped landfills that previously had been considered useless for de