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Governor Bill Haslam joined in celebrating Tennessee’s continuing strides to become the focus of clean energy power production in the United States. Solar power production was center stage at the dedication of the largest solar energy power production project in the TVA’s seven state system.
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Left to Right: Tom Kilgore, CEO of TVA (left) and Governor Bill Haslam install the final solar panel and initiate the solar farm activation.Governor Bill Haslam joined Tennessee Valley Authority CEO Tom Kilgore and officials from Meridian Development Partners, owners of the American Drive Business Center, at the dedication of a solar installation in Jackson on January 27. The solar array located at the Business Center is a one megawatt solar power system plus a 47 kilowatt solar installation and is the largest solar project in the seven-state TVA region.
The clean, emissions-free power from the 1 MW solar array will go onto the Jackson Energy Authority grid where it will be purchased by TVA through their Generation Partners program. The energy produced from this solar array is enough to power more than 120 average-sized homes. It has a carbon offset savings equal to 96,853 gallons of gas consumed. Also included is a 47 kW installation, which will power a portion of the operations at the Business Center.
The solar installation is comprised of 4,914 solar modules manufactured by Sharp Solar in the company’s Memphis plant. The system was constructed by Efficient Energy of Tennessee based in Powell.
The Jackson solar project is the second 1 MW installation in Tennessee. The first is located near Knoxville and went online in August 2010. More photos from the dedication can be viewed on ECD’s Flickr site.
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