Perdue Farms teamed up with Standard Solar Inc. and Washington Gas Energy Services (WGES) to construct one of the largest commercial solar systems on the East Coast.
Phase 1 of the construction, a massive 6,720 panel solar farm at Perdue's feed mill in Bridgeville, is complete and Phase 2 is under way at Perdue's corporate offices in Salisbury. The Bridgeville solar farm covers 360,000 square feet -- more than seven football fields -- and will produce 1.6 megawatts of power at capacity. The Salisbury phase of the project is expected to be completed this October.
Once completed, a total of 11,000 solar panels will be installed. When operating at maximum capacity, the panels will produce up to 90% of the energy required by both sites.
WGES owns the panels and sells the energy to Perdue, and Standard Solar was contracted to build the panels.
