wiredinUSA November 2011

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Solar array is the cat’s whiskers

REC Solar designed and installed the solar array; the solar plant consists of nearly 1,900 solar panels spanning over 70,000ft 2 on the rooftop.The company said the solar array will take advantage of Arizona’s average of 300 days of sunshine annually to produce nearly 12 million kWh of clean, emission free solar electricity over its lifetime. “This production volume offsets over 16 million pounds of greenhouse gases, equivalent to planting more than 40,000 trees,” Hayes said. In addition to installing the Flagstaff solar array, REC partnered with Purina for the 2008 installation of a solar array at the Nestle Purina Denver pet food facility, the nation’s first major pet food plant to pilot a solar energy array.

Nestle Purina PetCare has inaugurated

a 427kW private solar array at its Flagstaff pet food manufacturing facility in northern Arizona, US.

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