Solar arrays are used efficiently over a parking lot.
According to the South Brunswick Post, Dow Jones has launched a massive solar project.
On Monday a ribbon cutting ceremony was held for the solar project which will be built on it’s route 1 campus. 13,000 solar panels will be installed on parking areas throughout the 2,000 acre campus. Depending on how much sunlight their is the solar system will account for between 15% to 50% of energy consumption of the campus.
During the ribbon cutting ceremony U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, made mention of the BP oil spill fiasco, and encouraged a need to move away from traditional dirty forms of generating power, such as oil, and coal, and move towards clean renewable sources of energy. The Senators heavily praised Dow Jones for it’s efforts to go solar, and encouraged other large corporate entities to follow in their foot steps.
The solar system will deliver 3.6 megawatts from the solar panels installed on the parking areas. Another 522 kilowatts will be generated from solar installations attached to roofs.
The generated power will be used to offset the campus’s needs from electric company PSE&G during times of sunlight. When their are times of less energy consumption the generated power will be fed into the grid.
The massive solar power system is expected to be completed in 2011, and will be constructed by SunPower Corp.
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It’s great that big companies are getting on board the green bandwagon. In order to make it effective, individuals, companies and governments will all need to be involved in taking steps towards converting to solar energy.
I contemplate if they should come to their senses and give up using the oil. Alternative technologies has already been there to replace it all!
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Sun will never be popular until the price comes down, and incentives and tax credits won’t have the desired effect. But aside from money, the solar models will have to be easy to set up and operate, function as well or better than recent systems, be weather-resistant, be secure to use, be capable of large-scale production, and so on. However the most important thing that must happen before this technology goes mainstream – the performance of the solar cells and battery have to get significantly better.