[CPEO-BIF] Los Alamos, New Mexico landfill solar project

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Solar Power Coming to Los Alamos: Project Designed For 600 Homes

By Phil Parker
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
August 09, 2010

A 15-acre array of solar panels will be built next year in Los Alamos, 
for a project intended to advance ideas on efficiently storing and 
utilizing solar power in communities. The $27 million "smart grid" 
system is a collaboration between the county, Los Alamos National 
Laboratory and a Japanese energy company.

Twenty-five representatives of the Japanese company NEDO, for New Energy 
and Industrial Technology Development Organization, visited Los Alamos 
late last month to finalize and unveil the project's details. There are 
three structural components:

A two-megawatt photovoltaic facility built over a capped Los Alamos 
County landfill.

A 10-megawatt-hour utility scale battery storage system.

A "smart house" demonstration home built using green construction 
techniques, with meters and appliances meant to optimize power conservation.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/irth_sopwe_solar-power-coming-to-los-alamos-project-designed-for-600-homes-1097763.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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