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As one of Arizona’s main electricity utilities, Salt River Project (SRP) has done its part to promote the use of solar power — mainly by providing solar rebate to customers who install solar panels on their home or business.
(For more info on SRP’s solar incentive programs, see here and here.)
As it turns out, this isn’t the only way the utility is increasing the number of residential solar energy systems within its service territory.
SRP has installed solar panels atop 30 group homes in the East Valley area of greater Phoenix, at sites in Mesa, Tempe, Queen Creek and Ahwatukee. Each system is 5-kilowatts in size (about average for residential solar) and is expected to save $700 a year on annual electricity costs.
As the Phoenix Business Journal relays,
[h]alf of the money comes through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act with the other half matched by SRP. The utility received a grant from the Income Qualified Residential Solar Electric Program of the Energy Office of the Arizona Commerce Authority, which coordinated the stimulus money.
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“We are proud to be a part of a program that assists nonprofits in lowering their overhead costs while offsetting their electricity usage with clean energy from the sun,” said SRP Manager of Sustainable Initiatives and Technologies Lori Singleton.
Photo courtesy of Salt River Project.
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