Work Starts on Oxy Solar Array

After two years of developing one of the largest solar arrays not just in L.A. but possibly on any college campus in America,  has begun work on a 4,886-panel project that will generate about 11 percent of the campus’ annual power consumption while removing 1,250 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air every year—the equivalent of keeping 250 automobiles off the road.

The $6.8 million, 1-megawatt project--which has been endorsed by the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council, TERA and --will be completed this coming spring.

Incorporating an innovative and aesthetic ground-mounted design, the project's largely hillside panels will feed home solar installations in Eagle Rock, Highland Park and Mount Washington, where some residents signed up with the college last summer to share in a subsidized alternative energy project that is bound to make Oxy an educational—and residential—trendsetter in environmental conservation.

For further details, click on this link to the Oxy website.