
North & West Vineland Solar
Constellation Solar New Jersey LLC
INTERCONNECTING UTILITY:
Vineland Municipal Electric Utility
RMT'S ROLE:
Engineering, procurement, and construction of complete electrical and civil systems, including the following:
- Site layout and electrical system optimization
- DC and AC collector systems
- Foundation posts and fixed-tilt racking systems
- Module installation
- Inverters, padmount transformers, and switchgear
- Interconnection design and coordination
- SCADA and metoring system integration
- System testing commissioning
- Access roads, site grading, dust and erosion controls, storm water controls, perimeter fencing, landscaping, and site restoration (including pre-construction soil amendments to improve suitability for growing low-growth grass in beach sand)
- Meteorological station
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:
- Commissioned facilities in October 2011
- The facilities will create enough clean energy to power over 2,000 homes
- West Vineland was constructed in beach sand environment with shallow groundwater adjacent to a sewage treatment facility
- North Vineland was constructed adjacent to a residential development in agricultural field
- Designed the foundations to minimize materials required for the posts and racking systems
- Constructed with 100% local union work force
- Successfully obtained NJ DCA approval of design submittals to support accelerated schedule


