{"id":4179,"date":"2022-02-15T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:01:35","slug":"solar-means-business-in-america-heres-what-that-looks-like-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/solar-means-business-in-america-heres-what-that-looks-like-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar means business in America: Here\u2019s what that looks like in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Scott Elias, guest editorial, PENN Live Patriot-News, Feb. 4, 2022<\/p>\n

Americans know that solar means business, creates jobs, helps the environment, and can help families, farms, and businesses save money \u2014 that\u2019s why poll after poll finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans across the political spectrum support the use and development of solar energy.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Solar is already working throughout Pennsylvania. Here is what some of that business looks like.<\/p>\n

Solar means business for the engineers, developers, and installers of a solar project at Centre County Correctional facility that\u2019s now on track to save Centre County between $4-6 million over the next 40 years.<\/p>\n

Solar means business to the installers and developers of a 2.6-megawatt solar project in Middelburg that is saving the Midd-West School District over $350,000 annually<\/a> and offsetting 100% of its electricity needs.<\/p>\n

Full article HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo of the Midd-West School District solar array located in the borough of Middleburg, Pennsylvania, from the solar installation company Solar Renewable Energy LLC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Solar is already working throughout Pennsylvania, but a small, stepped increase in Pennsylvania\u2019s solar goals, community solar, and long-term policy certainty is what the solar industry needs to continue leading the charge when it comes to helping more of Pennsylvania\u2019s schools, municipalities, homes and businesses control their own energy futures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":4180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleanpower","category-green-jobs","category-pa_pgh_news","category-solutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}