Annual updates on the College’s 1 MW solar array from Professor of Physics Daniel Snowden-Ifft for the Oxy community and beyond.
Today, Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 12 years old. Since "first-light," on March 4th, 2013, the array has produced 20.70 GWh of electrical energy, 11.55% of the college's usage over the same time period.
Today, Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 11 years old. Since "first-light," on March 4th, 2013, the array has produced 19.4 GWh of electrical energy, 11.8% of the college's usage over the same time period.
Today, Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 10 years old. Since "first-light," on March 4th, 2013, the array has produced 17.85 GWh of electrical energy, 12.0% of the college's usage over the same time period.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Today, Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 5 years old. In the last year the array produced 1.87 GWh of electrical energy.
Today, Occidental's 1 MW solar array is 4 years old. In the last year the array produced 1.82 GWh of electrical energy.
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.