The Oregon University System is set to begin work on the state’s largest solar project with a groundbreaking at the Oregon Institute of Technology.
The Oregon University System is set to begin work on the state’s largest solar project with a groundbreaking at the Oregon Institute of Technology.
Gov. John Kitzhaber and Chris Maples, president of OIT, will lean on shovels to kick off what OUS is calling “Solar by Degrees” a project to install large-scale solar at all of its campuses.
The first phase of the project, to be completed by the end of the year, will install large ground-mounted solar arrays at OIT, Eastern Oregon University and Oregon State University. Combined, the solar arrays will have an installed capacity of about 4.9 megawatts, enough to power about 900 homes.
The project is thought to be the largest multiple-campus university system-based contract for solar energy in the nation and will take one of Oregon’s university essentially off the grid.
Read more at Sustainable Business Oregon.
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