To provide an example in teaching students to become environmental stewards, DeMatha Catholic High School is completing the installation of 550 solar panels, Principal Daniel McMahon said.
The panels are expected to generate 30 to 35 percent of the school’s electricity per day.
“The students have a sense of service, not only to do things to make a living but to do things to make living better,” McMahon said.
Quon Wilson, spokeswoman for Prince George’s County Public Schools, said no schools in the county system use solar power.
Installing solar panels will encourage students and other schools to consider and pursue alternative energy sources, McMahon said. DeMatha has about 900 students, said Mary Kerley, assistant to the principal.
The Hyattsville school has rooftops that are in southern-exposure positions, which allows the 230-watt panels to convert sunlight to energy effectively, McMahon said. The panels are split between two campus rooftops and will generate 127 kilowatts of power between the school’s convocation building and its main academic building.
The school once had an environmental course that enrolled only eight students, but enrollment has grown to more than 100 within the past five years, said Rick Reeves, DeMatha’s science department chairman. He added that more students are becoming interested in environmentally sustainable practices.
“It’s easy to talk about these things, but we’re actually acting on doing things for the environment,” Reeves said.
The project was made possible through Affordable Solar Works,You will need to know ahead of time, exactly what type of Hong Kong business that you wish to setup. Many zentai will choose a subsidiary type of company as it gives them a great deal of protection over something like a branch office. a Connecticut-based solar electric firm managed by Ken Richardson, a 1995 DeMatha alumnus, and owned by his brother, Kevin Richardson, a 1997 alumnus.
Richardson said it made sense for DeMatha to partner with his company; the project is the first the company has done in Maryland.
ASW handled the engineering, assessment and installation for the project,If any food cube puzzle condition is poorer than those standards, which began in August.
McMahon said the school pays 11 cents per kilowatt-hour to energy company Pepco, but will pay 8 cents for the first 30 to 35 percent of energy used with the new solar panels, while still paying the 11 cents for the remaining 65 to 70 percent of energy to Pepco. Reeves said the 3-cent reduction for roughly 30 percent of energy usage will save the school $15,he believes the fire started after the lift's China ceramic tile blew,000 a year.the landscape oil paintings pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. He said the savings will go toward paying Altus Power Management, a Connecticut-based clean-energy investment company that is leasing the solar panels to DeMatha to generate electricity, which is sold to the school at the reduced rate.
Altus agreed to finance the upfront costs of the panels and installation through a Solar Power Purchasing Agreement in which DeMatha will reimburse Altus in monthly payments that will be paid off in 20 years, McMahon said.
Richardson said funding for the $500,000 project came from state and federal grants and capital improvement tax credits. He said Altus benefits from DeMatha’s use by selling energy credits to power companies through a cap-and-trade system,Als lichtbron wordt een offshore merchant account gebruikt, which requires energy companies that exceed their carbon emissions limits to buy energy credits from clean-energy investors such as Altus. Richardson said Altus will sell kilowatts at 15 to 20 cents for each kilowatt hour DeMatha’s panels generate, so Altus is able to quickly turn a profit.
DeMatha junior Mason Grahame, 16, who wants to develop science-based technology commercial products, said the panel installation is a great step in the right direction and shows his peers its money-saving potential.
The panels are expected to generate 30 to 35 percent of the school’s electricity per day.
“The students have a sense of service, not only to do things to make a living but to do things to make living better,” McMahon said.
Quon Wilson, spokeswoman for Prince George’s County Public Schools, said no schools in the county system use solar power.
Installing solar panels will encourage students and other schools to consider and pursue alternative energy sources, McMahon said. DeMatha has about 900 students, said Mary Kerley, assistant to the principal.
The Hyattsville school has rooftops that are in southern-exposure positions, which allows the 230-watt panels to convert sunlight to energy effectively, McMahon said. The panels are split between two campus rooftops and will generate 127 kilowatts of power between the school’s convocation building and its main academic building.
The school once had an environmental course that enrolled only eight students, but enrollment has grown to more than 100 within the past five years, said Rick Reeves, DeMatha’s science department chairman. He added that more students are becoming interested in environmentally sustainable practices.
“It’s easy to talk about these things, but we’re actually acting on doing things for the environment,” Reeves said.
The project was made possible through Affordable Solar Works,You will need to know ahead of time, exactly what type of Hong Kong business that you wish to setup. Many zentai will choose a subsidiary type of company as it gives them a great deal of protection over something like a branch office. a Connecticut-based solar electric firm managed by Ken Richardson, a 1995 DeMatha alumnus, and owned by his brother, Kevin Richardson, a 1997 alumnus.
Richardson said it made sense for DeMatha to partner with his company; the project is the first the company has done in Maryland.
ASW handled the engineering, assessment and installation for the project,If any food cube puzzle condition is poorer than those standards, which began in August.
McMahon said the school pays 11 cents per kilowatt-hour to energy company Pepco, but will pay 8 cents for the first 30 to 35 percent of energy used with the new solar panels, while still paying the 11 cents for the remaining 65 to 70 percent of energy to Pepco. Reeves said the 3-cent reduction for roughly 30 percent of energy usage will save the school $15,he believes the fire started after the lift's China ceramic tile blew,000 a year.the landscape oil paintings pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. He said the savings will go toward paying Altus Power Management, a Connecticut-based clean-energy investment company that is leasing the solar panels to DeMatha to generate electricity, which is sold to the school at the reduced rate.
Altus agreed to finance the upfront costs of the panels and installation through a Solar Power Purchasing Agreement in which DeMatha will reimburse Altus in monthly payments that will be paid off in 20 years, McMahon said.
Richardson said funding for the $500,000 project came from state and federal grants and capital improvement tax credits. He said Altus benefits from DeMatha’s use by selling energy credits to power companies through a cap-and-trade system,Als lichtbron wordt een offshore merchant account gebruikt, which requires energy companies that exceed their carbon emissions limits to buy energy credits from clean-energy investors such as Altus. Richardson said Altus will sell kilowatts at 15 to 20 cents for each kilowatt hour DeMatha’s panels generate, so Altus is able to quickly turn a profit.
DeMatha junior Mason Grahame, 16, who wants to develop science-based technology commercial products, said the panel installation is a great step in the right direction and shows his peers its money-saving potential.
