Making the best possible use of a $14,500 grant from the Snohomish County Public Utility District and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, the Stanwood High School’s agriculture department has installed a solar panel in the agriculture compound of its campus. Now, the 1,360-watt solar panel faces the perfect southern sun.
The PUD came up with the necessary technical expertise on the solar-electric project and instructed Cory and Scott, both agriculture students, on how to get on with it. Later, after getting the building permits and some site inspections, they fitted the power cables from the solar panel to the buildings while working with other 25 agriculture students.
The solar panel will supply the nursery plants with additional light and heat in two greenhouses. It will also power the aquaculture laboratory housing 10,000 juvenile salmons.
Via: HeraldNet
