CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) ― The Cheyenne VA Medical Center is one of 18 Veterans Affairs facilities in the country to be awarded funding to install solar energy systems.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Thursday that it is spending $20.2 million on the project nationwide.
VA is using crystalline silicon modules for its solar panels. Depending on the [...]
Check out this interesting story from GetSolar’s Margaret Collins:
Powering modern warfare is an aspect of defense funding that not many Americans think about on a daily basis. How do you keep communications equipment and tactical devices running in the field? How do you deal with transporting batteries, generators, and enough fuel to run an entire [...]
Distributed solar generation, where solar panels are incorporated into building materials and on rooftops, will require a new generation of trained electrical and solar specialists.
Solar energy, despite all of the effort to increase its usage, still only accounts for less than one percent of the energy we consume. The amount of solar energy that reaches [...]
Via GetSolar’s blog (republished with permission):
Judging from recent announcements, the Department of Veterans Affairs is aiming for a solar-powered future.
On November 20, the VA announced plans to install a solar photovoltaic (PV) system at a facility of the West Texas VA Health Care System. And today, via the Phoenix Business Journal, we learned that VA [...]
