Greenskies Completes Solar Arrays at Clinton Schools
Press Release | Middletown, CT
July 24, 2015
Greenskies Renewable Energy, a Middletown-based solar energy company, has completed separate photovoltaic solar projects at two public schools in Clinton.
Collectively, the two solar arrays will produce about 325,000 kilowatt hours of clean electric energy per year that will help offset current energy costs at both schools, said James Desantos, Greenskies’ vice president of business development and government relations.
The projects include a 132-kilowatt roof-mounted solar system at the Jared Eliot Middle School on Fairy Dell Road and a similar 132-kilowatt roof-mounted installation at the Lewin G. Joel Jr. Elementary School on Glenwood Road.
Under the power-purchase agreement Greenskies has entered with the town, the company will design, develop, finance, own and maintain both solar installations for the next 20 years at no cost to the town while Clinton agrees to purchase 100 percent of the electricity produced at the sites at a fixed and significantly discounted rate.
Greenskies designs, builds and maintains solar photovoltaic systems for corporate clients, municipalities and government agencies, educational institutions and utilities throughout the United States. Solar installations designed and built by Greenskies have now produced about 40 million kilowatt hours of clean electric power.