Last week, Los Angeles Air Force Base became home to the largest solar shadeport in the area. Designed and built by Solar Electrical Systems (SES), a California solar installer, the 360-kilowatt (kW) solar installation is not only expected to shave some $70,000 off the base’s annual electricity costs while generating clean, renewable power. It will also bring with it a highly coveted commodity: a cool car seat in the middle of the scorching southern California summer.
The solar shadeport will provide shade for dozens of parking spaces
SES was selected to install the solar energy system because they work quickly and, for this particular project, offered a unique solar installation design. Rather than stringing together a large number of small solar panels, SES took seven larger panels and, according to the press release, made them “panelized.” The result was one long solar panel that was loaded on flatbed trucks and shipped to the project site.
