SOLAR POWER * USA - Santa Clara County's VTA tests out
Santa Clara,CAL,USA -The Mercury News, by Tracy Seipel -21 May 2009: -- As one of Santa Clara County's biggest users of electricity, the Valley Transportation Authority has been searching for ways to reduce its energy consumption... So when Mountain View-based Skyline Solar asked the agency if it could build a 27-kilowatt demonstration at one of its bus yards, VTA jumped at the chance... After all, the agency spends $5.3 million a year for electricity, most of which is for the light-rail system... The 24 solar racks at VTA's Cerone bus yard in North San Jose, unveiled last week, will operate for 18 months and reduce power use at the station by 2 percent... For the VTA, the partnership offers free electricity and a chance to experiment with solar power before investing in a larger-scale project... (Nhat V. Meyer/Mercury News - The new High Gain Solar (HGS) power plant built by Skyline Solar of Mountain View at the VTA Cerone Bus Maintenance and Operations Division in San Jose, Calif. on Tuesday, May 19, 2009)Labels: solar power
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