PPL Renewable Energy : Solar

PPL Renewable Energy designs and constructs photovoltaic systems that convert the energy from sunlight into electricity.

Solar energy technology helps reduce clients’ operating costs by using a reliable and renewable power source. Rooftop or ground-mounted solar panels can significantly reduce your energy bills by generating electricity during the daytime or “peak” hours when power prices are highest.

PPL Renewable Energy’s portfolio includes a growing number of solar energy facilities throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey and will continue to explore partnership opportunities to develop solar energy projects.

PPL Renewable Energy partnered with UGI Corporation and Crayola, the maker of children’s art & stationary products, to build a state-of-the-art 15-acre solar panel park at the Crayola facility in Forks Township prior to the end of 2009. More than 26,000 fixed photovoltaic solar panels installed on Crayola’s property will convert sunlight into electricity, generating 1.9 megawatts of electrical power. The solar facility will provide 10 percent of Crayola’s total annual energy consumption and enough energy to produce 1 billion crayons annually.

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As part of the company’s efforts to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, or carbon footprint, Merck partnered with PPL Renewable Energy to build a 1.7-megawatt solar energy system at its campus in Summit, N.J. Spanning seven rooftops, it is one of the largest rooftop solar installations in the United States.

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This 377-kilowatt rooftop solar energy system allows the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium in Princeton, N.J., to meet about 20 percent of its peak energy needs.

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As part of the team’s Go Green initiative, PPL Renewable Energy designed and constructed an innovative system for the Philadelphia Eagles training and practice complex that tracks the sun throughout the day to maximize the amount of solar electricity produced.

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Rooftop solar power installations produce electricity cleanly and efficiently for two Macy’s
department stores in New Jersey.

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Pennsauken Landfill renewable Energy Park

PPL Renewable Energy has partnered with the Pennsauken Sanitary Landfill in Camden County, NJ to design, construct, own and operate a renewable energy park consisting of a 2.8-megawatt methane gas-to-energy plant and a 500-kilowatt photovoltaic (solar) system.

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This 500-kilowatt photovoltaic (solar) system at Aluminum Shapes, an aluminum foundry and manufacturer in Pennsauken, N.J., is used to provide onsite power during the day.

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