Conservancy district to use solar panels to reduce electricity usage

NEW PHILADELPHIA ‒ The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District is popping to photo voltaic vitality to avoid wasting on its electrical energy payments and scale back its carbon footprint.

Final December, the MWCD Board of Administrators accepted an settlement with IMC Photo voltaic to supply photo voltaic vitality to Atwood, Clendening, Piedmont, Seneca and Tappan lakes, along with an workplace situated in New Philadelphia.

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The solar energy generated from these tasks will assist offset about 73% of the vitality in places with photo voltaic and decrease the carbon footprint of the conservancy district by an estimated 656 tons of CO2 emissions.

“MWCD’s mission is to be an excellent steward of our pure assets,” Craig Butler, MWCD govt director, mentioned in a press release. “Through the use of photo voltaic vitality to assist energy our amenities, we will scale back our carbon footprint, and reduce our influence on the surroundings. Ohio has glorious alternatives for solar energy, and we hope to develop this program to develop sooner or later. We’re lucky to associate with IMC Photo voltaic and welcome them as a part of our group to assist us handle our long-term vitality administration wants.

“The IMC Photo voltaic group is happy to associate with MWCD to develop renewable vitality to assist the district obtain its sustainability objectives. The photo voltaic program can even present higher economics for the district’s vitality prices,” mentioned Rick Frio, managing associate of IMC Photo voltaic.

IMC Photo voltaic analyzes electrical energy utilization, determines potential photo voltaic places and potential price financial savings for the conservation district. The corporate will help through the development part in addition to the negotiation of the acquisition energy settlement, together with offering monetary modeling of potential tasks.

“The ability harvested from the photo voltaic panels will enable us to scale back our complete want for electrical energy. It won’t immediately energy a selected facility, however it’s going to solely scale back our want for electrical energy,” mentioned Adria Bergeron, director of promoting and communications for the conservancy district.

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The tasks of various lakes shall be launched this 12 months, he mentioned. The aim is to put in the photo voltaic panels by the top of 2023.