UPDATE: Town meeting passed this easily.
The town of Bristol wants to build a 200-kw solar array to cut costs for their wastewater treatment plant. Their energy committee has created a terrific 17-minute video pitching it to voters that covers a lot of questions you might have costs for something like this, including the drawback of New Hampshire’s lousy net-metering law (they wanted a 400-kw array to offset other power use but it would have lost money!) and the way solar’s big financial benefit is avoiding non-generation costs for distribution, transmission and “stranded assets”.
Check it out here.
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Apparently the town doesn’t plan to run the wastewater treatment plant 24/7. Because I don’t see any costs for energy storage included.
I think the video mentions that storage costs were too great – but perhaps that was just what I was told.
Ken: The wastewater treatment plant would still be connected to the grid and drawing power from the grid during non-solar hours. Explained at minute 7, projected numbers at minute 11, and a mention of possible expansion using batteries near the end, pending improved battery cost and economics.