AT&T Installing 3700 Solar Panels
03 October, 2008
U.S. telecommunications company, AT & T announced that it will install a solar system of 1 megawatt at AT & T headquarters in San Ramon, California. For this initiative the company works with companies like SunPower, Pacific Gas and Electric, Morgan Stanley and CH2M HILL, informs Environmental Leader.
The new system will generate maximum power of up to 25% and 5.5% of the facility’s annual electricity consumption. The 3700 solar panels manufactured and installed by SunPower company will generate annually more than 1.6 million kilowatts per hour of electricity.
The project will be ready at the end of this year and will benefit from a reduction of 2.1 million dollars at the installation and material incentives from the company PG & E, following the entry in the California Solar Initiative.
In may, AT&T announced that it will add to it's auto fleet up to 105 vehicles powered with alternative fuels. This project will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 124 metric tons.
