Caribbean’s largest solar energy installation finds its place at King Airport, Virgin Islands

The people of Virgin Islands can now holds their heads up in pride and bask in the glory of the sun, as St. Thomas is now turning towards clean green solar energy to power up its airport facility, the King Airport. With a sack load of money worth $1.9 million funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the largest solar powered system in the entire territory is now being fitted into place at the airport. The system using photovoltaic panels will stretch 1,500 feet long and 14 feet wide and will generate 450 watts of energy, enough to satisfy 15% of the airport’s energy requirements. This sure will help shorter the airports expensive power bill which usually rises up to $400,000 a month!

Bringing solar energy to the sunshine islands in the Caribbean, it’s nice to see little holiday resorts as such making efforts to go green too.
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