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Just two days after IKEA’s Atlanta store officially turned on its rooftop solar array, the company announced that two of its Chicago-area stores, in Bolingbrook and Schaumburg, Illinois, now sport new rooftop PV projects. The two projects cover a total of 248,700 square feet and have a combined generating capacity of 1,989kW. Together, the two installations use 8,463 panels, which were provided by SolarWorld. SoCore Energy was responsible for the development, design and installation.
IKEA noted that its Chicago stores are the two largest distributed arrays in Illinois, making the company the state’s largest solar owner. The Bolingbrook store’s installation covers 140,300 square feet and has a generating capacity of 1,124kW using 4,784 panels. The Schaumburg store uses 3,692 panels across 108,400 square feet of rooftop space for 867kW. It is expected that the two installations will produce nearly 2, 33,081kWh of energy per year.
