Business View Magazine | September 2020

286 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 T&M Associates is a leading national consulting, environmental, engineering, technical services and construction management company that has delivered proven results for a broad spectrum of public and private clients for more than 50 years. tandmassociates.com – CONSTRUCTION MGT. – ENERGY & UTILITIES – ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS – ELECTRICAL & AUTOMATION – HEALTH & SAFETY – MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING – NATURAL HAZARD ASSESSMENT & MITIGATION – SITE DEVELOPMENT – TECHNOLOGY – TRANSPORTATION – WATER RESOURCES 11 TINDALL ROAD, MIDDLETOWN, NJ Your Goals. Our Mission. a planned solar power installation. “We have a train station in Middletown, about ten acres and it’s just a sea of asphalt for about 1,400 cars,” Mercantante reports. “We’ve long thought it would be a good place for a solar canopy project because of the amount of energy you could produce there. So, the Township recently partnered with a company called Tradition Energy out of Connecticut. Through them, we’ve done a purchase agreement for our power, which is getting us a good discount for our municipal facilities. Beyond that, we’d like to construct this solar canopy project and we are working with them, right now, on developing an RFP. Then we have to apply to a state program called Community Solar. If you build a solar facility, you can have other rate payers in the municipality buy into the facility and get the discount on their energy consumption by buying into the solar array. “We’re hopeful that we will be able to utilize that project to power, not only our municipal