Please join us in congratulating CEP Renewables as our newest Executive Board member at the New Jersey Energy Coalition! Below is more information about CEP Renewables.

CEP Renewables develops, engineers, and constructs utility-scale solar plants across North America. Our expertise allows us to take on particularly challenging projects such as the redevelopment of brownfields and landfills sites. CEP focuses on, among other things, the redevelopment of such land for beneficial, sustainable clean energy and has more experience in this field than most in the industry as well as experience in Europe and Asia.

CEP Renewable’s recent projects include converting polluted and abandoned industrial sites to renewable energy solar farms at the Mount Olive solar farm and the Holland solar farm, with both sites set to go live shortly. The Mount Olive Solar Farm, located in Morris County, is poised to be the largest solar array ever developed on a landfill property in the United States. The property had a notorious history of environmental contamination and was one of the first listed on the National Priorities List in the USEPA’s Superfund program. CEP Renewables was pleased to welcome Governor Murphy, NJBPU President Fiordaliso, and NJDEP Commissioner LaTourette to the property in November 2021 for the Governor’s signing of Executive Order 274, which provides for accelerated climate action to decrease state generate greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030. The project will employ 100s of highly-skilled and highly-paid union workers. The tax revenue generated from the facility will subsidize its township’s annual budget. When the facility becomes operational, the 25.6 MW DC facility will power nearly 20,000 area homes with green energy.

The Holland solar farm site was the site of a pulp paper mill operated on the banks of the Lopatcong River in Holland, New Jersey. The site housed large industrial buildings in which imported limber was rendered to paper in the 20th century. The buildings on the site have been demolished and that area is deed restricted and covered with an asphalt cap. The former irrigation fields have been remediated and tested for toxins. The developer has built two solar farms on the site equaling 18 MWs. These efforts to develop the sites as solar fields has returned the sites to the taxation rolls in Holland and turned a dilapidated and unproductive eyesore into a source of carbon free energy.

CEP Renewables other projects include converting polluted and abandoned industrial sites to renewable energy solar farms at the Old Bridge Clay Pit, the South Brunswick Township Landfill site, and at the Monroe Solar Farm.