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New one-megawatt solar array at Heritage Center can power 133 homes

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Powerhouse Six Solar Array Ribbon-cutting April 9, 2015

Company executives and city and federal officials celebrate a new one-megawatt solar array at Heritage Center in west Oak Ridge on Thursday with a ceremonial “plugging in.”

 

A new one-megawatt solar array at the Heritage Center in west Oak Ridge will provide enough clean energy to power 133 average-size homes per year, officials said.

Company and nonprofit executives joined city and federal officials for a ceremonial “plugging in” of the new Powerhouse Six photovoltaic solar array on Thursday.

The $1.8 million array has 3,268 solar modules, and it will be used to sell electric power to the Tennessee Valley Authority through the Oak Ridge Electric Department.

“We’re going live today,” said Gil Hough, renewable energy manager for RSI, or Restoration Services Inc., the Oak Ridge-based company that developed the array. [Read more…]

Solar farm in west Oak Ridge can power 20 homes

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Brightfield One Solar Array

The new Brightfield One 828-panel solar farm at Heritage Center in west Oak Ridge can generate enough electricity to power about 20 homes.

A solar array that began operating in west Oak Ridge in April can generate enough electricity to power about 20 homes, officials said during a ceremony Tuesday.

Developed by Restoration Services Inc., the $800,000 solar farm uses four rows of south-facing panels on 1.5 acres at the front side of Heritage Center, the former K-25 site.

“We wanted it right here at the entrance to make a statement about clean energy and the Department’s commitment,” said Rick Ferguson, RSI vice president, referring to the U.S. Department of Energy.

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