Rotating solar array could come online in Brewer as soon as 2023

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 5, 2021

Brewer could see a new solar panel installation that rotates with the sun as soon as 2023. The city planning board voted Monday to approve a site review plan that would allow Maine DG Hold Co. to begin the process of building a rotating solar tracking system near Wiswell Road. The system would rotate as it tracked the sun’s movements across the sky and reset at night instead of operating at a fixed tilt like conventional solar panel arrays, Kara Moody told the planning board at a meeting Monday. Moody is a project manager for Stantec, a consulting firm that is working with Longroad Energy on the project.