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San Diego School buildings going green with photovoltaic roofs: multimillion-dollar solar initiative to relieve district's budget by saving electricity.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 30-APR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: San Diego School buildings going green with photovoltaic roofs: multimillion-dollar solar initiative to relieve district's budget by saving electricity.(Special Report: Green Construction)

Article Excerpt
The San Diego Unified School District is saving some green by going green.

Identified as the largest photovoltaic initiative among school districts in the nation, the city's school district has, so far, installed solar roofs on 24 of its schools.

The project, which also calls for installing photovoltaics on at least 20 more schools, features 2.5 million square feet of solar roofing. It is expected that the project will have a capacity of producing 10,450 megawatts of electricity annually. That's enough electricity to power about 1,700 homes for one year.

The solar roofs are also expected to save the district more than $37 million in roof replacement, maintenance and electricity costs.

The school district first put out a request for proposal for the solar roofs during the energy crisis in 2003.

"We were looking for a reliable and dependable way to keep our schools open,"...

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