• The Salt Palace in Salt Lake City plays home to the country’s biggest rooftop solar array

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    The sunshine will be basked in the most in the Salt Lake City, Utah, at least when it comes to solar panels. And that’s because the city is to have the country’s largest rooftop solar array soon. The Salt Palace will play home to this 600,000-square-foot, 2.6 megawatt array soon. To be finished next year, this solar array will power up almost a quarter of the electricity needs of the Salt Palace. Costing $10 million, the system will be built by Bella Energy and will be owned by NexGen. Power will be sold from this system to the country by NexGen for the next 20 years at a predetermined rate.


    And with this, everyone’s a lot happier, the government with their surplus power, taxpayers saving money, while NexGen and Bella Energy can puff up their chests in pride for owning and building the largest rooftop solar array in the nation. Hope we see an installation bigger than this in future. After all, the more solar energy, the cleaner our electricity grid remains!
    [FastCompany]

    Posted in Topics:Alternative Energy, Tags: , on August 30, 2010