Clean energy is becoming a reality in Maryland. Last month, Maryland’s first commercial scale wind energy farms officially began contributing to the state’s electric grid. The Criterion and Synergics wind projects, both in Garrett County, will together generate 120MW of clean, renewable energy—enough to power 40,000 homes.
Next week, the University of Maryland will inaugurate Maryland’s largest solar power installation, a 2.2MW facility located on their Lower Eastern Shore campus, which was built by Maryland-based SunEdison. In addition, the State of Maryland, through the Maryland Energy Administration, has provided more than 2,600 grants to Maryland residents and over 50 grants to Maryland businesses and local governments seeking to do their part to reduce our state’s dependence on costly fossil fuels by generating clean, renewable energy at home.
As a result of these efforts and Maryland’s goal to produce 20% of the state’s electricity from renewable energy by 2022, the amount of solar installed in Maryland has soared five-fold in the last two years and is expected to double again in the next six months.
