[CPEO-BIF] Pilkington solar project, Northwood, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Pilkington plans solar project in Northwood
Grants to help offset $1.4M cost of work

By LARRY P. VELLEQUETTE
TOLEDO BLADE (OH)
December 2, 2009

Toledo-based glass maker Pilkington North America Inc. will install a 
$1.4 million solar array at its plant in Northwood, thanks in part to a 
state and federal grant that will offset nearly half the cost.

The 3,450-panel project, to be built by fall 2010 at the company's Plant 
21 site on East Broadway, is one of 25 alternative-energy projects in 
Ohio that will share more than $13 million in federal stimulus money, 
Gov. Ted Strickland said.

The 250-kilowatt solar field is to be built on a former brownfield and 
is to supply power to Pilkington's research and development facility, 
said Steve Giles, a spokesman with Hull & Associates Inc. of Dublin, 
Ohio, which will build the array for the glass maker. The state awarded 
Hull $680,782 for the project.

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For the entire article, see
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091202/BUSINESS03/912020334

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Lenny Siegel
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