Utility installs solar panels at power plants
The photovoltaic systems have been installed at the Newman power plant in Northeast El Paso and the Rio Grande power plant in Sunland Park, the company announced.
The solar panels will generate 260,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a year. That's the amount of electricity 448 El Paso homes with average electricity usage will consume in one month.
Related News
Renewable power developers discover more energy sources make better projects
CALGARY - Third-generation farmer James Praskach has been burned by the oil and gas sector and watched wicked weather pound his crops flat, but he is hoping a new kind of energy -- the renewable kind -- will pay dividends.
The 39-year-old is part of a landowner consortium that is hosting the sprawling 300-megawatt Blackspring Ridge Wind Project in southeastern Alberta.
He receives regular lease payments from the $600-million project that came online in 2014, even though none of the 166 towering wind turbines that surround his land are actually on it.
His lease payments stand to rise, however, when and if the…
