The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) today inaugurated a 2.2-megawatt (MW) solar farm that will meet 15 percent of campus electricity needs. Covering 17 acres of land previously used for agricultural research, the 7,800-panel solar array is the “largest concentration of photovoltaic modules on one site” in all of Maryland, according to the press [...]

Here are some ways you can help out, as well as examples of things already being done to teach kids how valuable and important solar energy is…

You can add the Pershing County School District in Nevada to the long list of districts across the country that have installed solar photovoltaic (PV) energy systems atop their schools to save money on utility bills and promote environmental consciousness.

Just days after southern California’s San Dieguito Union High School District installed solar “carports” above parking areas at two of its high schools, northern California’s Jefferson Union High School District (JUHSD) just south of San Francisco completed a similar project of its own.

Two high schools in North County, San Diego have installed one-megawatt (MW) solar “carports” above parking areas that will each account for 70 percent of each school’s needs.

The University of Delaware has given new meaning to the phrase “long overdue.” It’s Energy Institute is recognized as the oldest solar laboratory in the country. Some of the first methods used to capture the sun’s energy and use it as electricity were developed inside UD’s solar lab some 40 years ago by Steve Hegedus and other scientists.

Thanks to an agreement between the solar panel manufacturing and installation company SunPower and Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU), the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) will have a fully operational, 6-megawatt (MW), 30-acre solar energy system by the summer of 2011.

This time the buck stops in Utah, where the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has disbursed $3 million in ARRA funds in order to install solar atop 73 public schools statewide.

The solar installation at Linden Elementary School in Plainville, Connecticut was possible largely because of a Department of Energy and Department of Treasury solar financing program. There is a $3 billion funding pool for the program to shell out cash to companies that either manufacture or install renewable energy systems.

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