Reply #4: Clarion University installs first solar energy system [View All]

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http://www.thederrick.com/stories/11142006-2004.shtml

CLARION - Clarion University is demonstrating that the future is now for solar energy with the installment of its first system in a campus building.

Experts from Third Sun Solar and Wind Power in Athens, Ohio, have placed the university's first solar energy system - an ultra-high efficiency solar photo-voltaic array that will track the sun to electrify the campus office building of Thorn II.

"Solar-photovoltaic cells convert sunlight directly into electricity with no moving parts," said assistant physics professor Joshua Pearce, who researches solar energy.

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A large 26kW building-integrated solar photovoltaic array will be on the roof of the new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Science and Technology Center along with numerous other energy-efficient technologies in the building itself.

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