Town officials on Monday pulled the plug on a plan to build solar panels on the sewage treatment plant on Newfields Road.
The town had been approved for a $50,000 federal grant for the project, which would have cost more than $300,000.
The town had been in talks with Dover-based Revolution Energy to erect the panels.
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Officials expressed concern about the cost.
"We'd be replacing cheaper power with more expensive power," said Selectman Frank Ferraro.
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The solar array, which would have been larger than one recently erected at (right), would have provided 5 percent of the plant's power.
Fellow Selectman Bobby Aldrich said the board agreed with the idea of having a more environmentally friendly power source, but echoed Ferraro's concern about cost.
Selectman Julie Gilman voted that the project go ahead, but she was out-voted by Ferraro and Aldrich, who voted to scrap it Fellow Selectmen Matt Quandt (sickness) and Don Clement (surgery) were absent for the vote.
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