Treehugger.com: School receives biggest green Christmas present in history
December 19th, 2007 | Published in News | 1 Comment
School Receives Largest Green Christmas Gift in History
by Kenny Luna, North Babylon, NY on 12.19.07
That’s right folks, kids on the Gerlach school campus in Nevada received what probably serves as the largest green Christmas gift in history. Receiving a 90KW solar system for their school that will be pumping out clean energy long after they’ve graduated, and quite possibly when their own kids show up to sing Christmas carols one day.
The panels themselves are actually expected to generate up to 162,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually for the next 25 years. With the total energy savings over that time period expected to surpass $480,000. And the approximately $20,000 per year savings will directly benefit the students and faculty at the school, according to the people running the very rural Washoe County School District which serves a grand total of 83 students grades PreK-12.
Make no mistake about it, that’s a huge amount of money each year for such a small school district to put to good use.
And ultimately it’s all a result of a unique partnership between the folks at Burning Man, MMA Renewable Ventures, Sierra Pacific Power, and Black Rock Solar. A relatively young non-profit who’s founder Tom Price points out can turn every dollar donated into seven dollars worth of renewable energy. (Read the rest here)
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:43 am (#)
I appreciate the work being done at Black Rock Solar. Good job, people! It is good to hear alternative energy stories like yours and hope that the same enthusiasm is trickling down to others. I am sure your work is having a small positive effect at least, at this juncture in the energy crisis. I wish you more luck and success.
I have a reservation about using the term “solar system” for your power generators, though. The reason is obviously the ambiguity. “Solar generator” and “Solar cell system” sound like a couple of good alternative terms.