Private school in Delaware will install solar panels

May 11, 2011
Installation at Wilmington Friends School expected to provide 246,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually

News release: Wilmington Friends School in Wilmington, Del., plans to install more than 700 solar photovoltaic panels on the rooftops of two campus buildings this summer. The lower school building will have 319 panels, and the upper school building will have 407 panels. Upper school students will be able to monitor the real-time output from the solar panels, and data from and about the system will be incorporated into the science curriculum. The system will produce about 246,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually.

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