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Benefits & Potential Impacts
Project Benefits

The Addison Solar Project will provide a number of benefits to the communities of Steuben County. 

  • Tax Revenues

    The Addison Solar project will provide significant tax revenues to the Towns of Addison, Campbell, and Erwin, as well as to the local School Districts and Steuben County.

  • Contract Opportunities

    The Addison Solar project will provide opportunities to bid for contracts for work or materials to business owners and residents of the Towns of Addison, Campbell, and Erwin, as well as to Steuben County.

  • Jobs

    In addition to the opportunities to bid for contracts, the Addison Solar Project will create approximately 450 jobs either directly or through supporting local businesses and economies. 

  • Land Agreements

    WEB USA will partner with local landowners for leases and easements towards the project. These leases and easements present a steady and secure source of income for numerous local community members. Furthermore, by safeguarding the farmland from residential development, the site can be returned to agricultural use once the Project reaches the end of its useful life.

  • Host Community Benefit Program

    WEB is committed to forming a Host Community Benefit Program with the Towns of Addison, Campbell, and Erwin. This program would provide additional financial support to the local communities during the operation of the Addison Solar Project. 

  • State Goals

    The Addison Solar Project assists New York State in achieving its goal to produce 70% of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030. Currently, New York State only produces 29% of its electricity from clean energy.

Potential Impacts

WEB is committed to minimizing potential environmental impacts of the Addison Solar Project through careful design and consultation with experts in private industry, state agencies, and the town municipalities. 

WEB USA is working with Environmental Design & Research (EDR), a multidisciplinary firm dedicated to creating and sustaining a better environment through comprehensive environmental studies and consulting services, along with consultants such as Aletair, Fisher, Epsilon, and GZA GeoEnvironmental for the Addison Solar Project. WEB USA has also consulted with state agencies like the Office of Renewable Energy Siting and Electric Transmission (ORES), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), and New York State Historic Preservation Office (NYSHPO), as well as Steuben County and the towns of Addison, Campbell, and Erwin throughout the permit pre-application process.

  • Wildlife

    In 2021 and 2022, W.E.B in collaboration with EDR has conducted various wildlife studies to ensure that potential impacts on wildlife and their habitat(s) are understood, reduced, and mitigated. W.E.B will implement a Net Conservation Benefit Plan which will include land conservation and management of wintering habitat areas to mitigate these impacts.

  • Noise

    In 2023, EDR evaluated noise receptors within 3,000 feet of the Facility and Epsilon conducted a sound monitoring survey at various locations throughout the Facility. Modeling studies will be conducted with this data to predict the combined levels of background and Facility sound. The Facility will be designed to ensure compliance with all applicable noise standards outlined in Article VIII regulations.

  • Visual

    In 2023 EDR took photographs of the Facility and consulted with municipal planning representatives in 2024. Studies will map potential locations of Facility visibility, and photosimulations will be prepared from a subset of viewpoints to illustrate potential visibility with and without vegetative buffers. Based on the results of the visual studies, WEB will implement landscape vegetation screening as part of the Project to minimize visual impacts.

  • Wetlands

    In 2021, 2022 and 2023, EDR biologists identified and delineated wetlands and streams. Consultation with ORES and NYSDEC identified three state jurisdictional wetlands and no state jurisdictional streams within the Project site. WEB will develop a Conceptual Wetland Mitigation Plan to mitigate any direct impacts to state-regulated wetlands at a 1:1 ratio.

  • Agriculture

    W.E.B will create an agriculture plan to mitigate potential construction impacts on existing agricultural lands associated with the Addison Solar Project. W.E.B is committed to a decommissioning and site restoration plan that returns the land to agricultural use once the Project reaches the end of its useful life.

  • Stormwater

    W.E.B will implement a stormwater pollution prevention plan to ensure the Addison Solar project will not cause additional stormwater runoff to the project area. The plan would either decrease or maintain the current levels of stormwater runoff in the area.