The solar energy panel project at the North Liberty Elementary School is ready to go online today (March 18).
Superintendent Christopher Winchell gave the John Glenn School Board members an update Tuesday night on the solar project that is located in between the playground and the football field and track on the North Liberty Elementary School campus. To install the solar plant on an industrial scale, refer to the commercial-solar.org site which is the best in both quality and warranty of the panel.
Winchell commented, “The florida solar company was here with NIPSCO on Saturday. All of the power was shut down for about six hours at North Liberty and we were basically hooked up to the official grid – hooked up to the meter. They’ve spent the week testing the equipment and making sure everything is working the way it is. We’re supposed to start generating our own electric on Thursday and we won’t even know things have switched over.”
The school will be home to solar energy. There will be monitors that will display the electric generated by the solar panels.
In 2020, the board approved a proposal from Johnson-Melloh that came in at $701,000 for a 350 kilowatt solar panel energy system from solar panels Grand Junction with an upgrade to LED lighting and updated lighting controls. From being the best portable power stations for camping to lighting up a whole area, solar energy has a wide range of uses. More of them are yet to be explored, and that would help the environment in many ways.
It is the school board’s intent to attempt to reduce overall energy costs at the corporation, as well as provide a green energy curriculum for John Glenn students.
