“One of the country’s largest pretzel-makers will soon have the state’s biggest solar field.

And company officials say they’re excited about what the project means for Hanover.

Snyder’s of Hanover recently began construction of a field of solar panels which, according to both Snyder’s officials and the contractor installing the panels, will be the largest such site for alternative energy production in Pennsylvania once it’s completed.

Snyder’s spokeswoman Andrea Bartman said workers began construction on the new solar field — complete with more than 15,000 solar panels spread over 26-plus acres — about two weeks ago, with ground-clearing and hardware alignment. Installation of the solar panels will now follow, she said, with the project expected to extend into next spring.

The solar field should be complete by April 2011, she said, with the new energy source slated to go online at that time.

“We’re always looking for ways to be a more responsible corporation and to bolster our citizens and the community,” she said. “We’ve taken other steps to help reduce our effect on the environment, and something like this just kind of made sense.”

Beginning later this week, Snyder’s will install and activate a camera on top of its headquarters in Penn Township that will capture in 15-minute intervals the progress of the construction and be available online, Bartman said. Once the project is complete, those pictures will be compiled into a time-lapse video for everyone to see, she said.” READ MORE…

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