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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s George Washington Carver Center is now blessed with the sunshine. SolarWolrd has provided 1.6MW of 315-watt, 72-cell mono-si solar panels for a project located on the site, and the project is offering solar power the USDA starting from April 22nd.
The four-building office campus houses many members of the federal department’s headquarters staff, including its Agricultural Research Service. The ground-mount system located on 10 acres at the facility in Beltsville, Md., is expected to be the largest solar power system in the Washington, D.C., area.
The installation is the latest in a long series of systems featuring high-quality SolarWorld solar panels that have powered agricultural concerns, ranging from West Coast vineyards to Wisconsin filbert farms to Vermont apple orchards as well as farm-oriented group-buy programs. The system was commissioned in a ceremony on Wednesday, April 22, featuring remarks by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
Amber Enterprises Inc., a minority-owned firm that undertook engineering, procurement and construction of the Carver Center system, said it was delighted to employ high-quality solar-power technology provided by SolarWorld.
“Whenever we supply a project to support agriculture, we feel kinship with American farmers, who, like us, are constantly honing their technologies for the future,” says Ardes Johnson, U.S. vice president of sales and marketing for SolarWorld. “We’re proud that our solar panels will help power the primary agency charged with supporting and developing this staple U.S. industry and employer.”