They ll be operated and maintained by third sun solar with a long term agreement in place for denison to purchase all of the.
Bioreserve solar panel denison university area acres 2017.
Denison s biological reserve was established by the board of trustees in 1966 through the efforts of professor robert alrutz who served as director until his retirement in 1990.
Hampshire college contracted with solarcity to install the panels.
Denison currently receives 15 of its energy from solar energy.
Two witness tests were conducted in june 2017 and its final one conducted november 2017.
As such we have prepared state based solar guides.
This array along with a smaller teaching array located behind denison s red barn recycling station became active in 2017.
Bio buzz denison university department of biology november 2017 issue 14 well it s that time of year again.
Denison university is a leader among the nation s liberal arts colleges offering some 60 academic programs to 2 200 students in granville ohio.
At denison students apply their learning to local issues and work within the community to research and implement the best strategies to solve actual problems.
These guides include localized solar panels production data local rebates and incentives as well as ballpark cost savings and estimators that take local weather and utility electric rates in.
Smart metering allows for surplus energy produced by the solar panels to either be used at night or fed back into the grid reimbursing energy cost per kilowatt hour.
The solar arrays are owned by aep and located on university land.
In the fall of 2017 the envs junior practicum course worked with the licking county concerned citizens group to find ways to promote solar energy through education.
Denison university s pollinator friendly solar array is the first of its kind in the state of ohio and the first in a five state area demonstrating an innovative and productive use for the land under and around ground mounted solar panels.
The biology department is thankful to philip hurst 18 elizabeth postema 18 and aedin brennan 16 for.
Our largest solar array comprised of 6750 panels located on a 10 acre degraded field in the college s bioreserve provides 2 3 megawatts of energy.
The economics of the solar panel installation varies by house utility area climate zone and state.
Since june 2017 part of the solar array has been powering the college.
The solar panels cover 19 acres consisting of 15 000 panels which will eventually produce 4 7 megawatts of power.
The 36 solar panels produce a 7 4 kwh energy output and the wind turbine can generate 400 kw per month studio 804.
Bioreserve by presenting their denison research to our trustees.
