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Solar power in Massachusetts has been increasing rapidly, due to a 30% tax grant for installations begun before December 31, 2011,〔(1603 Treasury Program )〕 and the sale of SRECs for $0.30/kWh,〔(Massachusetts Announces Change to SREC Program )〕 which allow payback for the system within 5 or 6 years, and generating an income for the rest of the life of the system. For systems installed after December 31, 2011, and before December 31, 2016, the 30% tax grant becomes a 30% tax credit. There has been an appeal to the Congress to extend the 1603 program, the grant program, for an additional year.〔(Energy Tax Breaks Proposed, Despite Waning Support for Subsidies )〕〔(Overview and Status Update of the 1603 Program )〕 Net metering is available with no aggregate limit for systems less than 10 kW, or three phase connected systems less than 25 kW. Larger systems are limited to 3% of total peak load.〔(Massachusetts Net Metering )〕 The first solar park in the country is the 100 kW array installed in 1981 at Beverly High School.〔(Solar-panel grant keeps Beverly High going green )〕 Only five college campuses in the state have solar panels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Northeastern University, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Tufts University. The largest is Harvard's 555 kW array.〔(Harvard is Hot on Solar Panels, But Why Aren’t Other Boston Universities as Charged Up? )〕〔(Solar Energy & Weather Data )〕 New England's largest privately owned solar array is the 4.5 MW Westford Solar Park, completed in April 2012.〔(Solar park set to warm region )〕 Almost every town and city in Massachusetts has a solar installation within its boundaries.〔(Governor Patrick Flips The Switch at Westford Solar Park )〕 The town of Harvard, Massachusetts has the most solar installations with 75 planned, of which 21 have been installed.〔(Solararize Harvard )〕 Holyoke is home to two arrays which total 4.5 MW which were completed on December 20, 2011.〔(Holyoke solar power project, among largest in New England, starts up )〕 A 1.8 MW solar farm in Pittsfield was completed in 2010.〔(Largest solar power plant in New England about to open )〕 A 5.75 MW solar park in Canton was completed in 2012.〔(Old Massachusetts Landfill Will be Home to New England's Largest Solar Array )〕〔(Canton dump may soon be a solar powerhouse )〕 Two 6 MW solar parks are being built, one in Berkley, and the other in Carver.〔(Solar power soars to new heights in Berkley )〕 As of August 2012, a total of 129 MW has been installed in the state.〔(Massachusetts Clean Energy Installations )〕 State officials had set a target of installing 250 MW of solar PV statewide by 2017 and in May 2013 upped the target to 1,600 MW by 2020 as the 250 MW goal had been met four years ahead of schedule. ==Statistics== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Solar power in Massachusetts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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