Annual updates on the College’s 1 MW solar array from Professor of Physics Daniel Snowden-Ifft for the Oxy community and beyond.

Newsletter No. 12

Today, Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 9 years old.  Since "first-light," on March 4th, 2013, the array has produced 16.20 GWh of electrical energy, 12.1% of the college's usage over the same time period.

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Newsletter No. 11

Today, Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 8 years old. Since "first-light," on March 4th, 2013, the array has produced 14.46 GWh of electrical energy, 12.1% of the college's usage over the same time period.

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Newsletter No. 10

Today Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 7 years old. Since "first-light" on March 4th, 2013 the array has produced 12.75 GWh of electrical energy, 11.9% of the college's usage over the same time period.

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Newsletter No. 9

Today Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 6 years old. Since "first-light" on March 4th, 2013 the array has produced 11.01 GWh of electrical energy, 12.0% of the college's use over the same time period.

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Newsletter No. 8

Today, Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 5 years old. In the last year the array produced 1.87 GWh of electrical energy.

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Newsletter No. 7

Today, Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 4 years old. In the last year the array produced 1.82 GWh of electrical energy.

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Newsletter No. 6

Today, Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 3 years old. In the last year the array produced 1.78 GWh of electrical energy, slightly down from our first (1.82 GWh) and second (1.88 GWh) years.

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Newsletter No. 5

Today, Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 2.5 years old.

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Newsletter No. 4

Today is the 2nd anniversary of Occidental's 1 MW solar array. In the last year the array produced 1.86 GWh of electrical energy, slightly up (+2.8%) from our total 1.81 GWh last year for a grand total of 3.67 GWh.

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Newsletter No. 3

Occidental's 1 MW solar array just finished, today, it's first year of operation.  Happy 1st Birthday Solar Array!

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