2009 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:10:18 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: Ohio Air National Guard solar field, Toledo
 
Entrepreneur Norm Johnston wants Ohio to build solar fields to generate jobs

by John Funk
Cleveland Plain Dealer (OH)
July 20, 2009

Solar entrepreneur Norm Johnston thinks one of the cures for Ohio's economic malaise is sitting in a grassy field at the Ohio Air National Guard 180th Fighter Wing.

There, 11,000 solar panels sit on five acres, soon to be 20,000 panels occupying seven acres.

When completed the solar field will generate up to 1.8 megawatts (1,800,000 watts). The electricity the field already makes is wired directly into the jet base, replacing power that would have come from Toledo Edison.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/07/solar_field.html

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