Rooftop Solar Plant
March 31, 2008
Posted by CindyC in : Communities , trackback
If everything goes to plan, southern California will have enough solar energy to power 162,000 homes, all generated by two square miles of solar panels installed on commercial rooftops. Southern California Edison is launching its $875 million initiative to install 250 megawatts of solar panels on warehouse rooftops leased from building owners in Riverside and San Bernardino County.
This project exceeds total solar cell production in 2006 and is the first attempt for a major utility to use “distributed energy”. Instead constructing a centralized power station to transmit energy into the grid, the project will connect the solar cells directly to the neighborhood circuits. This plan avoids the need to invest in muti-billion dollar transmission systems in remote areas but rather create the opportunity to bring power directly to areas with growing demand.
I don’t know about you but I prefer the sight of solar panels to ugly, boxy warehouse rooftops any day.
CindyC at Organicpicks
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I have absolutely no engineering knowlege, but I’ve long thought this would be a smart thing to do. I kind of don’t like the idea of covering a large swath of land with solar panels, but using existing rooftop space makes so much sense! I’ve always wondered why every building in the southwest was not using solar power. I can understand why it hasn’t caught on much here, where we have such gray winters, but out there it seems there would be a very quick return on the investment.
That is SO cool!
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