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Just this Thursday six schools in the East Side Union High School District broke ground on a 3.7 MW solar project. They are going solar to reduce the energy costs of the school, and also due to the very favorable incentives around for solar power. Once these sites go online it will save the schools $1.5 million in the first year, $7.6 million after 5 years, and $36 million over the lifetime of the project. Not only that but this project would reduce carbon emission by 3,100 metric tons a year.
This serves the obvious benefit of reducing the schools costs in the future and allowing this cost to be applied elsewhere in the school. And at the same time this would show the students at these high schools renewable energy systems firsthand, and help generate more energy conscious youth. In a time when schools have been cutting many programs, it’s nice to see a solution like energy saving be part of the potential cure to school budgets.
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