Solar panels planned for convention center


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Convention Center Solar Project aims to install over 500 photovoltaic panels, funded by a DOE Energy Efficiency grant and private financing, with RFQ selection, City Council approval, and clean energy generation targeted by 2012.

 

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A $1M solar project with 500+ panels, using DOE funds and private financing, pending approval, planned online by 2012.

  • $250k EECBG grant; $750k private financing sought
  • RFQ responses due Mar 5; contractor selection Mar 19
  • Over 500 solar panels; power equal to 15 U.S. homes

 

The city of Knoxville plans to use $250,000 from its federal stimulus money to install large-scale solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of the Knoxville Convention Center, city officials said.

 

The $250,000 comes from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant through the U.S. Department of Energy, with $87 million for solar technologies recently announced, and the city issued a request for qualifications to find a company interested in doing the job and financing the $750,000 needed to complete the $1 million project. The award in such a request is based on qualifications rather than the lowest bidder.

Responses from prospective contractors are due March 5, and the city expects to choose a contractor March 19. The solar installation should be completed and generating electricity by 2012, much like the Mesa water plant solar panels effort, Susanna Bass, the city's sustainability program manager, said in a press release.

But the project still needs City Council to give it a green light, and Bass expects to seek that approval in early summer.

The convention center solar project would feature more than 500 solar panels and should generate enough electricity to power about 15 average American households for a year.

"These grant funds provide an opportunity for the city to host this project, as seen with the Atlantic City solar roof initiative, providing both a location and seed funds for a financing plan," Bass said.

The convention center project and six others are being funded by the $2 million in DOE stimulus money, where solar and wind projects vie for funds nationally, including:

• $700,000 to help start the city's planned curbside recycling program, a project that still needs council approval;

• $261,182 in salary and benefits for three years for a program manager to oversee the grant programs and all the city's energy and sustainability efforts;

• $300,000 for a Green Building Incentive Program to encourage contractors to build or renovate using energy efficient methods or use solar power.

 

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