Paley’s Farm Market & Garden Center

solar panels next to greenhouse

Paley’s Farm Market is a family run operation in Sharon, CT with 5 growing greenhouses and 1 retail greenhouse with produce grown on 22 acres right at the farm. The majority of energy use on the farm is electrical for keeping produce refrigerated, and farm store use. Paley’s installed a 36 kW ground mounted system that has 3 arrays and 144 panels offsetting 94% of their annual electric usage.

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