Turning Big Box Stores into Solar Power Plants in California
March 28th, 2008Imagine my shock.
Via: Treehugger:
It was only last Autumn that we reported that the biggest solar farm in the US would be a 80-megawatt installation by Cleantech America. Now, Southern California Edison (SCE) wants to build something quite a bit larger, a 250-megawatt farm with a twist: It will be distributed among many commercial rooftops, starting with southern California’s Inland Empire, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
They are planning to install 1 megawatt per week starting in August. Once the project is finished, it will take up 65,000,000 square feet of roofs that would otherwise be unused and produce enough clean energy to supply about 162,000 homes. The total cost of the project will be about $875 million and is projected to take about five years to complete.
