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Only In Print: CCBQ Reflecting on Solar Power

Houston-based EDP Renewables built this community solar farm in Westchester County. It began operating in December with Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens as a customer. CCBQ’s Progress of Peoples Development Corporation contracted with EDP to buy electricity for affordable-housing apartment buildings. (Photo: EDP Renewables via Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens.)

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens has taken another step towards its goal to add more solar-generated green energy to “power up” its 44 affordable housing buildings.

CCBQ’s Progress of Peoples Development Corporation (POP) recently contracted with Houston-based EDP Renewables to buy electricity for the apartment buildings from a new solar farm in Westchester County. The 1.2-megawatt facility became operational in …


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