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In Los Angeles, California, the city’s Department of Water and Power (DWP) is eyeing flat, dusty, arid Owens Lake as the potential site for a future mega-solar farm, but the initiative is focused less on clean, renewable solar energy than on preventing the interminable dust storms generated by the dry lake bed.
In Washington, Connecticut, the John Door Nature Center recently installed a 35-kilowatt solar rooftop photovoltaic (PV) system. The John Door Nature Center is one of four locations for the Horace Mann School, an independent day school located in New York City serving students from second through twelfth grades.
The Missouri Department of Transportation has signed a contract with Pave Guard Technologies of Lee's Summit to install solar warming systems on two bridges near St. Louis, one of the state’s four largest cities.
In Port Townsend, Washington, the county-owned airport may soon get a $100,000 solar array for free courtesy of solar firm Power Trip Energy and a consortium of solar interests called the Jefferson Solar Group.
The newly constructed Loudoun County Homeless Services Center in Leesburg, Virginia, destined to become a Silver-certified LEED building, recently began generating part of its electricity needs for the facility with a 9.5-kilowatt solar photovoltaic array, which in Virginia’s relatively sunny climate can be expected to deliver about 13,000 kilowatt-hours per year, or enough to power a large American home.
Back in September, the City of Houston agreed to buy all the solar power from a proposed NRG $40-million solar plant on a 25-year power purchase agreement, or PPA.
On Tuesday, December 15, City of New Jersey officials, along with Weston Solutions, Inc. executives and Wilson Avenue Realty representatives, got together for a final inspection of a 200-kilowatt rooftop solar system at the city’s engineering department motor vehicle garage.
According to AP reports, NV Energy just gave the city of Reno, Nevada, a $1-million incentive payment to be used for installing solar panels at the Reno Events Center, and for paying off the cost of panels installed earlier this year at the city’s Parking Gallery garage.
On Dec. 17, New York State Governor David A. Paterson added $6 million in funding to the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) via a grant which will allow LIPA to continue helping homeowners and businesses install solar photovoltaic systems to lower energy bills and reduce carbon emissions.
If the Obama administration has its way, an additional $5 billion will be directed toward clean energy manufacturing.
