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Article: Lighting the Way for Colleges; Campus Hopes Solar Farm Will Be Model for Other Schools
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- The Washington Post
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- August 9, 2009
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On one of the fields where students learn about agriculture, the
University of Maryland Eastern Shore will soon be planting a new
kind of crop with a constantly renewable yield: 20 acres' worth of
photovoltaic panels, the largest solar farm in the state.
The 2.1-megawatt system, to be built by Beltsville-based
SunEdison, will generate electricity for the 4,100-student campus in
Princess Anne, Md., when it's finished, which is expected to be by
the end of the year.
"We hope it will be a model for other universities as well as the
surrounding businesses in the area," said Suzanne Street, the
university's spokeswoman.
The solar farm, about the size of 22 football fields, should help
stabilize ...