Five Trumbull Schools to be Equipped with Solar Panels

TRUMBULL, CT- Greenskies Renewable Energy will be installing solar panels at five Trumbull schools.

The five schools include Trumbull High School, Madison Middle School, Hillcrest Middle School, Frenchtown Elementary School and Daniels Farm School.

The 1.5 megawatt project will be used to offset energy usage at the schools.

Under the agreement Greenskies will design, develop, finance, own and maintain the five solar installations for the next 20 years at no cost to the town while Trumbull agrees to purchase 100 percent of the electricity produced at the sites at a discount.

The five solar arrays will be made up of a combined total of more than 5,000 photovoltaic solar panels, said James Desantos Greenskies' vice president of business development and government relations. Construction on the projects is expected to begin by early summer.

“Under the leadership of First Selectman Timothy Herbst and Mark Deming (the director of facilities for the Trumbull Board of Education), Trumbull is at the forefront of the renewable energy revolution among municipalities," Desantos said.

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