commentSolar Park Planned for Denver's Federal Center
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced in August that SunEdison would design and construct a one-megawatt solar photovoltaic park at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, Colorado. The nearly six-acre array, currently under construction, should be functioning by December 2007. It will generate nearly 10 percent of the one-square-mile Federal Center campus’ peak electrical demand, or the equivalent of powering 145 average homes per year.
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The project depends, in part, for financing on Colorado’s Renewable Energy Sources (RES) initiative, as well as the utility company Xcel Energy. Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard requires that by 2020 all large electric utilities generate 20 percent of their power using renewable sources.
For more information:
www.sunedison.com
www.gsa.gov/r8
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