PSHS System
This system was designed by students participating in the Energy and Power Program at Caperton Center for Applied Technology. These students worked for a year developing the economic model, laying out panels on the roof around other existing features, connecting the circuiting into the inverters, and finally witnessed the completed installation.
This system will produce approximately 140,000 kWH of power for the High School in an average year, which is the equivalent power used by 12.6 average American homes for a year, and will avoid the creation of 146 tons of CO2 per year. This is the equivalent of the roughly 119 acres of trees growing for a year. For reference, a ton of CO2 is the equivalent of burning 100 gallons of gas. The goal of this project is to install a power generation system which uses sunlight as the fuel. Direct sunlight provides power which provides for the building’s electrical needs.
Monitor PV Power Live
Approx. % Power Gen. 50%
This system, comprising 323 solar panels, will provide approximately 113 kW of solar power which will offset a portion of the energy used in the building. We are expecting that this system will provide 50% of the energy used by the PSHS Athletic House in an average year. Click the panel image or link below to view the system live.
To learn more about the system, check out our PSHS page here.
