ASHLAND, Ore. – Southern Oregon College will obtain $2 million in federal funding to assist its transition to solar energy and power independence.
The federal funding might be used to partially fund the college’s multi-year photo voltaic transition, which goals to make SOU the primary public college within the nation to generate all of its personal photo voltaic electrical energy on its campus.
SOU plans to put in extra photo voltaic arrays in campus parking tons and rooftops.
The transition to photo voltaic power is anticipated to avoid wasting SOU not less than $700,000 yearly in utility prices, and the extra photo voltaic installations will allow the college to generate income by promoting electrical energy to native utilities, the report mentioned. on the college.
SOU at present has 9 photo voltaic arrays on its Ashland campus, plus an array on the Larger Training Middle in Medford and a pole-mounted array put in final yr by a nonprofit on land leased from SOU.
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