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Article: Water district looks to the sun
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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MANTECA -- The irrigation district that serves Manteca, Lathrop
and Tracy finalized a deal to make the sun's rays a cheaper and more
reliable means of power.
On Thursday, Manteca-based South San Joaquin Irrigation District
signed a deal with Sacramento-based SunTechnics Energy Systems Inc.
to install one of the largest solar systems in the United States.
The $12.5 million agreement would put 11,040 solar modules --
capable of producing 3.7 million kilowatt hours of electricity -- on
a seven-acre site adjacent to a water treatment plant. The new
system provides enough juice to power 550 homes and offset more than
4.1 million pounds of carbon dioxide, according to Suntechnics
officials.
"We ...