Constellation Energy to open two solar plants in Westover harvesting solar power

Constellation Energy is to open two solar power plants before year's end on former farmland in this rural hamlet, chipping in 4 megawatts more of electricity toward a state goal of displacing a consumption of fossil fuel.

Total electricity output by the plants off Costen Road will more than double large-scale renewable generation growth in sun power for Somerset County, where last year, SunEdison unveiled a 2.2 megawatt solar farm at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Somerset County, currently generating 2.37 megawatts of solar power, ranks first on the Eastern Shore and 10th ...