Dive Summary:

• Selectmen agreed to enter final negotiations to build a $9 million solar farm on a landfill site in Bellingham, Massachusetts.
• Bellingham would lease the 30-acre landfill to a contractor for 20 years at about $20,000 per year; both parties have not yet decided on whether they will enter a power purchase agreement with the contractor.
• The School Department has been in talks to develop the project since the summer and would receive a $500,000 capital investment through the project.

From the article:

Selectmen agreed Monday to move forward with negotiations to build a 2.9-megawatt solar farm on the Maple Street landfill, signing a good will agreement with the firm proposing the $9 million project.

The town would lease the 30-acre landfill to a contractor picked by Energy in the Bank, a Pennsylvania-based firm acting to broker the deal, for 20 years at about $20,000 per year. ...