{"id":2774,"date":"2012-12-13T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2012-12-13T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T18:55:11","slug":"solar-at-osu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2012\/12\/13\/solar-at-osu\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar at OSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction is nearly complete at OSU&#8217;s first two large-scale ground-mounted solar electric systems.\u00a0 The larger site, located near the Trysting Tree Golf Course on the east side of the Willamette River, is a little over two acres and around 450 kilowatts.\u00a0\u00a0 A second site near 53rd St. and Campus Way is just under two acres and around 300 kilowatts.\u00a0 Under a power purchase agreement between the <a href=\"www.ous.edu\">Oregon University System<\/a> (OUS) and\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarcity.com\/\">SolarCity<\/a>, construction began in November and will be complete by the end of December.\u00a0 Systems will be tested and activated in early January.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2775\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2775\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2012\/11\/IMG_20121115_084909-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"53rd and Campus Way\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The power produced by the panels will be sold to OSU at rates lower than  from the local utility grid.\u00a0 This project, along with others around  the state, is part of the process to power OUS  with renewable sources,  called Solar By Degrees.\u00a0 The arrangement allows OSU to pay no upfront  cost and realize utility cost savings over the entire life of the  project. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarcity.com\/\">SolarCity<\/a> installs, owns, maintains and operates solar equipment tied to  the  electric grid \u201cdownstream\u201d from OSU electric meters.\u00a0 OSU purchases   renewable electricity generated by the solar equipment at a rate lower   than from the local utility but still relies on the   utility to provide whatever power is needed beyond what the solar system   can produce.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2776\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2867  \" title=\"IMG_20121113_115927\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_20121113_115927-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20121113_115927\" width=\"387\" height=\"291\" \/><br \/>\n<figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ground mounted solar racking and panels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarworld-usa.com\/\">SolarWorld<\/a>, the largest  United States solar manufacturer, supplied more than 3,000  high-performance solar panels for the installations. SolarWorld  manufactures solar technology, from raw material silicon to finished  solar panels, in Hillsboro, Ore., at its 97-acre U.S. manufacturing  headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>A third site planned for development next year and is likely to be  around six acres in size.\u00a0 The space was made available thanks to  support from OSU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/agsci.oregonstate.edu\/\">College of Agricultural Sciences<\/a>, and the land will likely continue to be used for sheep grazing.\u00a0 See the full <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/ua\/ncs\/archives\/2012\/dec\/osu-planting-seeds-%E2%80%9Csolar-farm%E2%80%9D-campus-part-ous-program\">press release<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainablebusinessoregon.com\/articles\/2012\/12\/oregon-state-university-installs-two.html\">Sustainable Business Oregon<\/a> article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction is nearly complete at OSU&#8217;s first two large-scale ground-mounted solar electric systems.\u00a0 The larger site, located near the Trysting Tree Golf Course on the east side of the Willamette River, is a little over two acres and around 450 kilowatts.\u00a0\u00a0 A second site near 53rd St. and Campus Way is just under two acres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292103],"tags":[356],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","tag-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}