William J. Kemble reports in The Daily Freeman that the Saugerties Town Board approved a developer's plan March 6 for a two-megawatt solar array on a former town landfill off state Route 212. Now the town is considering purchasing 40 percent of the facility's electrical output. The town of Saugerties gave developer East Light Partners a $1,900 annual payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement, and the business will pay $30,000 per year to the town under a lease agreement. “The ... electricity the town currently uses generates 590 tons of greenhouse gases each year,” Town Supervisor Fred Costello said about the prospect of Saugerties buying power from the project. “This project will enable us to slash that emissions number considerably, while at the same time the town can generate as much as $50,000 per year in revenue and energy savings.” East Light Partners will use about 26 acres of the 43.7-acre former landfill that stopped receiving solid waste in 1996. Read the full story in The Daily Freeman.