[CPEO-BIF] "IKEA Flips On Solar In Brooklyn" (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

IKEA Flips On Solar In Brooklyn

by Caleb Denison
Earth Techling
May 4, 2011

Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has finally flipped the switch on the  
solar energy system perched atop its Brooklyn store’s roof. A recent  
statement indicates the solar system is now officially commissioned,  
operational and certified by Con Edison and New York City. According  
to this report at Onearth, the panels were actually  installed atop  
New York’s first and only IKEA location last June, but delays in  
getting approvals from Con Ed have kept the solar panels on standby.

IKEA reports that the 200 kilowatt array occupies 19,000 square feet  
of rooftop real estate and involves 1,104 solar panels. The  
installation is expected to generate 240,000 kilowatt hours of  
renewable electricity annually for the store. That works out to be  
the about the same as  20 homes worth of electricity annually,  
according to an EPA clean energy calculator.  IKEA Brooklyn also has  
70,000-square feet of green roof, a 6.5-acre waterfront esplanade,  
multiple transit options, and has been certified as a Brownfield  
redevelopment. IKEA notes that the store also has been awarded LEED  
(Silver) by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green  
Building Certification Institute.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.earthtechling.com/2011/05/ikea-flips-on-solar-in-brooklyn/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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