This is a very important step
Atlantic City convention center raises the roof on solar expectations
By KEVIN POST Business Editor, 609-272-7250
Published: Saturday, November 15, 2008
ATLANTIC CITY - A roof used to be just a necessity that occasionally required expensive maintenance.
In the age of alternative energy, a roof is a resource, one that faces the ultimate source of power, the sun.
The biggest such resource in southern New Jersey is atop the Atlantic City Convention Center - a roof more than three football fields long and a third as wide.
Pepco Energy Services and the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority are maximizing the use of that resource, installing 13,300 solar panels on the roof this month that will produce up to 2.36 megawatts of electricity starting early next year.
It's quite a deal for the convention authority, spokeswoman Karen Martin said Friday.
The authority pays nothing for the solar array.
All maintenance of the solar panels - cleaning them and the roof around them, and replacing ones damaged by gulls dropping clams - will be the responsibility of Pepco during the 20-year contract.
Before the panels were installed, Pepco paid to put a new white insulated roof on the center, to keep it warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
And the authority expectes to save nearly $4.4 million in electricity costs during the 20-year period. (more)
By KEVIN POST Business Editor, 609-272-7250
Published: Saturday, November 15, 2008
ATLANTIC CITY - A roof used to be just a necessity that occasionally required expensive maintenance.
In the age of alternative energy, a roof is a resource, one that faces the ultimate source of power, the sun.
The biggest such resource in southern New Jersey is atop the Atlantic City Convention Center - a roof more than three football fields long and a third as wide.
Pepco Energy Services and the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority are maximizing the use of that resource, installing 13,300 solar panels on the roof this month that will produce up to 2.36 megawatts of electricity starting early next year.
It's quite a deal for the convention authority, spokeswoman Karen Martin said Friday.
The authority pays nothing for the solar array.
All maintenance of the solar panels - cleaning them and the roof around them, and replacing ones damaged by gulls dropping clams - will be the responsibility of Pepco during the 20-year contract.
Before the panels were installed, Pepco paid to put a new white insulated roof on the center, to keep it warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
And the authority expectes to save nearly $4.4 million in electricity costs during the 20-year period. (more)
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