Safe Photo voltaic Futures has signed a 25-year PPA with Roanoke Metropolis Public Colleges (RCPS) to develop a 1.7 MW system.
The corporate will set up a complete of three,667 photo voltaic panels manufactured by Trina Photo voltaic at seven places: Fallon Park and Fishburn Park elementary faculties; James Breckinridge, John P. Fishwick, Lucy Addison, and Woodrow Wilson center faculties; and the William B. Robertson central administration constructing. Development will start early subsequent yr and is slated to be full by 2024’s shut.
“Going photo voltaic helps Roanoke Metropolis Public Colleges defend their budgets towards volatility in utility prices that’s seemingly sooner or later,” says Anthony Smith, Safe Photo voltaic Futures president and co-founder. “And internet hosting photo voltaic vitality programs on web site makes RCPS a frontrunner in defending the atmosphere whereas providing college students hands-on alternatives to study renewable vitality and faucet into the twenty first century economic system.”
In its first yr, the system is ready to supply 2,287,402 kWh of electrical energy, offsetting almost 39% of the electrical energy demand of the seven places mixed, says the corporate.
Arrays might be put in at no upfront price to RCPS. After set up, Safe Photo voltaic Futures will personal, function and keep the tools, promoting the clear vitality produced to the varsity division at a value typically decrease than the speed charged by the native electrical utility for the time period of the PPA.
“Using solar energy, as set forth in our strategic plan, will enable RCPS to be higher stewards of the environment,” says Dr. Verletta White, superintendent of Roanoke Metropolis Public Colleges.
On the conclusion of the PPA, RCPS will take possession of the system at no further price, producing its personal vitality for the rest of the tools’s anticipated 35- to 40-year productive lifespan.
