In the fall of 2017 the envs junior practicum course worked with the licking county concerned citizens group to find ways to promote solar energy through education.
Bioreserve solar panel denison university area acres 2017.
Bio buzz denison university department of biology november 2017 issue 14 well it s that time of year again.
Denison currently receives 15 of its energy from solar energy.
The economics of the solar panel installation varies by house utility area climate zone and state.
Two witness tests were conducted in june 2017 and its final one conducted november 2017.
Denison university s pollinator friendly solar array is the first of its kind in the state of ohio and the first in a five state area demonstrating an innovative and productive use for the land under and around ground mounted solar panels.
This array along with a smaller teaching array located behind denison s red barn recycling station became active in 2017.
The reserve encompasses 350 acres in three contiguous sections that are within easy walking distance of campus.
The biology department is thankful to philip hurst 18 elizabeth postema 18 and aedin brennan 16 for.
Hampshire college contracted with solarcity to install the panels.
The 36 solar panels produce a 7 4 kwh energy output and the wind turbine can generate 400 kw per month studio 804.
Our largest solar array comprised of 6750 panels located on a 10 acre degraded field in the college s bioreserve provides 2 3 megawatts of energy.
The solar arrays are owned by aep and located on university land.
One day it s sunny and 60 f the next day it.
The solar panels cover 19 acres consisting of 15 000 panels which will eventually produce 4 7 megawatts of power.
Denison s biological reserve was established by the board of trustees in 1966 through the efforts of professor robert alrutz who served as director until his retirement in 1990.
As such we have prepared state based solar guides.
Bioreserve by presenting their denison research to our trustees.
Denison s solar array has a generation capacity of 2 3 mw solar array and produces 2 800 000 kwh.
At denison students apply their learning to local issues and work within the community to research and implement the best strategies to solve actual problems.
Since june 2017 part of the solar array has been powering the college.
They ll be operated and maintained by third sun solar with a long term agreement in place for denison to purchase all of the.
