Shepherd University’s Agricultural Innovation Center at Tabler Farm, a demonstration farm where students learn and implement sustainable agriculture practices, hosts a 6-kilowatt solar array.
The 189 solar panels on Shepherd University’s Scarborough Library rooftop was the largest solar installation among West Virginia nonprofit organizations when installed in 2019. The panels generate 60 kilowatts of power per year and promise a savings of approximately $120,000 over the system’s lifetime.
Operations are underway at Mon Power and Potomac Edison’s second utility-scale solar site in West Virginia as of October 2024. Approximately 14,000 solar panels are producing up to 5.5 megawatts of renewable electricity on company-owned property in Rivesville, WV (Marion County).
The town of Harpers Ferry, WV signed an agreement with FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison to purchase solar energy from their proposed solar facility to power 100 percent of the town’s streetlight and town hall energy requirements.
Morgantown’s National Energy Technology Lab’s first-of-its-kind commitment to purchase 100 percent of its electricity from the Fort Martin solar facility helped make the facility’s construction possible.
Mon Power’s Fort Martin solar plant, West Virginia’s largest solar generation facility to date, with 50,000 solar panels generating 19 megawatts of electricity, came online January 4, 2024.
Across denominations, faith-based groups have been leaders in advancing sustainable projects. We learned that there is something special about religious congregations.
Toyota West Virginia continues to implement carbon neutral practices and invest in renewable energy–including an agrivoltaic effort–to meet the company’s Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050: becoming carbon neutral by 2035.
In this podcast Paster Tony Setley with Morgantown’s Saint Paul Lutheran Church discusses his congregation’s process for implementing solar panels for what he calls their “mini power plant on the roof.”
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