Pima solar project a first step en route to renewable energy (AZ)

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http://www.azstarnet.com/business/272753

By installing solar arrays at the Roger Road Wastewater Treatment Plant, Pima County will reduce its electricity use over the next 20 years by an amount equivalent to taking 11,000 cars off the road.

This is Pima County's first step toward using renewable-energy sources to generate 15 percent of the county's energy needs by 2025, one of the county's sustainability objectives.

The arrays will generate 40 percent of the electricity needed for the sewage-treatment plant and 1.8 percent of the county's total annual power requirements.

Pima County has two master agreements with Solon America Solar Electric and Sun Edison that should have the county generating 6 megawatts of electricity from solar power over the next three years.

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