Arlington County Government, VA Environmental Services (DES), 26 Oct 2011

Previous Meeting Next Meeting

⏯

youtube image

►

From YouTube: NewsMakers: Solar Panels Installed on Roof of Arlington Public Library

Description

Monday October 24 saw the dedication of new solar panels on the roof of the Arlington Virginia Public Library. The panels were made possible by the US Department of Energy and the program was administered by the Arlington Department of Environmental Services.

A

Welcome to the latest edition of newsmakers. Today we attend a dedication of a new solar panel on the roof of our central library building Arlington Department of Environmental Services Director William O Connor led off the ceremony with an overview of the benefits to Arlington residents.

B

Sitting very quietly over our heads here on the roof of the central library is an array of brand-new american-made 250 photovoltaic panels, which, as we speak, can be generating as much as 60 kilowatts of electricity. Well,.

C

It's got a great flat roof without a lot of trees around it, so we can actually accumulate a lot of the panels up there and and get enough power to make a difference. That's.

B

Enough electricity to power, 2,500 compact fluorescents, for span of an hour and through a combination of actual energy savings and sale of energy credits, it will save initially save the county, an estimated twenty three thousand dollars annually. The.

A

Program was funded by the US Department of Energy and dr. Henry. Kelly of the office of energy efficiency and renewable energy has a personal connection to the library. But.

D

The central library is really a great place to be talking about. This is Mary said this is my library, my kids library library's mean a lot to a community, but clearly one of the things they do is, if they're, a reservoir of human insight on which you can build and look to the future and the what better symbol of the future.

D

Then, to put these for these forward-looking electric generation technologies on the roof of this place, proving that you can do things that make economic sense that create businesses and jobs and clean up the environment, including combating the threat of climate change. The.

E

Long range program of greening collections, programs, business things that we do differently, I didn't mention CFLs, where we do CFL recycling. We've got kilowatt meters that people can stick in it's at their home and figure out how much energy they're using. So it's constantly raising the visibility of the issue. How people individuals can make a difference? One person changing out one light bulb, makes a difference. A hundred doing it makes that much more of a difference. So it's our it's our job to educate the public about how important it is so.

D

I want to congratulate Arlington, which over the years has been a leader in building clean, livable communities. This is clearly another step in the right direction. So thank you. It's a privilege to participate.

A

That's it join us next time for a new edition of newsmakers.

A