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Thursday, July 25, 2013

It's (almost) always sunny in Pennsylvania: Keystone Solar Project is rockin' it!

Big-time solar farms are sprouting all across the Keystone state. I had the good fortune to tour one of them this month. Located on the Kreider farm just south of Lancaster, and currently the largest solar installation in Pennsylvania, this farm is the aptly-named Keystone Solar Project.

Developed by our friends at Community Energy, Inc., and built on the Kreider farm, Keystone came online last October. The ground-mounted panels can produce up to 7.5 million kWh of electricity a year, the equivalent of powering 950 homes. This avoids 4,200 tons of carbon dioxide every year. How cool is that?
 
And for the clean energy geeks out there: You can actually view the current power output of Keystone solar farm (the page is updated every 15 minutes). Gosh, it's almost as good as being there.