Lawrenceville, NJ school installs 6.1MW of SolarWorld panels on 30-acre site

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Providing around 90% of the school’s energy requirements, SolarWorld has installed 6.1MW of its PV panels on a 30-acre site adjacent to the Lawrenceville School. The boarding school’s ground-mounted system was initially developed by TurtleEnergy and was purchased in 2011 by KDC Solar, which completed the development and constructed the project.

Said to be the largest PV system installed at a US school, the installation features 24,934 of SolarWorld’s modules mounted on single-axis trackers. The Lawrenceville School will buy back the electricity produced by the array for the next 20 years from KDC Solar, who leased the land for the project from the school and owns and maintains all of the solar equipment.

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“A solar installation of this magnitude serves as an inspirational reminder to the Lawrenceville School’s students and the surrounding community that we have the technology and ingenuity to solve our planet’s most pressing environmental challenges,” said Kevin Kilkelly, president of SolarWorld Americas. “By securing the school’s energy rates for years to come, the system represents a sound financial investment as well.”

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