Looks like it is really going to happen, this fall ASU will start having solar panels installed on the roofs of many of the buildings on campus. When they are done these panels will produce up to 7% of the school’s electricity. It’s really nice to see ASU taking the lead in this and I hope other Universities follow suit.
Arizona State University plans to spread solar panels across the rooftops of its sprawling Tempe, Ariz. campus, creating the largest solar array at an American university, school officials said.
ASU plans to begin installing solar panels on about 135,000 square feet of rooftop in August, about a third of that available on university buildings. They will provide 2 megawatts of electricity to the university grid - about 7 percent of the school’s energy needs.
That’s enough to power 4,600 computers and reduce ASU’s carbon emissions by 2,825 tons per year.
“We have a tremendous number of buildings that have flat roofs. It’s an ideal place to put these things,” Jonathan Fink, director of ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability, said.
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