A massive solar power plant is to be built on a vacant runway at the airport.
Saturn Solar Bermuda 1, a part of Canadian-based Saturn Power, will develop the six-megawatt power plant on “the finger”, a runway and munitions pier when the airport was run by the US Navy as a Naval Air Station.
The generating plant will be the first large-scale renewable energy resource on the island.
Walter Roban, the Minister of Transport and Regulatory Affairs, said: “Out of nine candidates, six being Bermudian, Saturn Power came in as the lowest bidder at 10.3 cents per kilowatt hour.
(http://www.royalgazette.com/environment/article/20180605/solar-power-plant-deal-signed
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