By Kristen Levine

Mike Borkowski and Rob Babcock, the enterprising owners of EPG Solar, offered an informational presentation at Monday night’s Planning Board meeting. Attended by over a dozen abutters to the project, EPG owners tried to put residents’ minds at ease over the aesthetic and commercial impacts of the project.

    The proposed 20-acre solar farm, a green energy facility, would produce enough power to service an average of 400 homes per year. The electricity generated by the solar panels would remain in Lunenburg, distributed through Unitil.

    For the residents in attendance, it was not a question of where the power is going and how it will be used, but rather how the facility will affect their daily lives. The farm, located between West Townsend Road and Pleasant Street, is in the middle of a residential neighborhood.

    Longtime town resident Paulette Beardmore, of 282 Pleasant St. said this new project reminded her of hardships felt following the construction of “Walmart Mountain” and Emerald Place condominiums.

    “I’ve lived here for 39 years,” Beardmore said. “When I first moved here, when I looked out my window there was nothing but nature. Now there’s Walmart. They’re clearing in Whalom for another 52 houses [aside from Emerald Place], there’s low-income housing in my neighborhood…Whalom district has taken enough abuse, and we’re all sick of it.”

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