Soundcentury » harvard university solar http://soundcentury.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:30:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Soundcentury delivers a weekly podcast featuring unsigned rock and roll bands from New England. You can expect to hear Vermont bands, New Hampshire bands, Maine bands, Connecticut bands, Rhode Island bands and Massachusetts Bands. All bands are handpicked by the soundcentury team. They are then called upon to send over their music and if they do...it gets heard by you. soundcentury clean soundcentury strainephotography@gmail.com strainephotography@gmail.com (soundcentury) soundcentury Music Soundcentury Jambands,vermont,music,independent,rock,and,roll,good,dank,phish,talkingheads,unsigned,new,england,new,hampshire,music,grateful,dead,pixies,new,england,indie,music,burlington,vermont,music,jam,new,england Soundcentury » harvard university solar http://www.soundcentury.com/images/scrssimage.jpg http://soundcentury.com Harvard Digs the Sun http://soundcentury.com/2010/01/harvard-digs-the-sun/ http://soundcentury.com/2010/01/harvard-digs-the-sun/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:02:08 +0000 http://soundcentury.com/?p=278 The future of energy can be found by looking up in the sky and Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass understands this well. On January 12th, CarbonFree Technology, Integrys Energy Services, Inc., and SunPower Corporation announced the completion of a money-saving rooftop solar power system. The 500-kilowatt Sunpower system is Harvard’s largest and most up-to-date [...]]]> The future of energy can be found by looking up in the sky and Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass understands this well. On January 12th, CarbonFree Technology, Integrys Energy Services, Inc., and SunPower Corporation announced the completion of a money-saving rooftop solar power system. The 500-kilowatt Sunpower system is Harvard’s largest and most up-to-date solar power investment.

According to CarbonFree Technology, the solar power system, a SunPower T5 Solar Roof Tile, will generate the equivalent of the amount of power required for 83 average Massachusetts homes each year, potentially offsetting the equivalent of 367 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

The project was kick-started by a $1.1 million rebate provided by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, to promote the installation of grid-tied photovoltaic systems.

Harvard is onto something very good here. Imagine if more Universities and Colleges around the world adopted similar projects. The long-term savings should outweigh the initial start-up costs.

There has never been a better time for Colleges and Universities to invest into wind and solar technology. They can become energy self-sufficient and potentially generate income through the selling of excess energy to surrounding areas.

Could this be the solution to the economic troubles many Colleges and Universities are currently facing?

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