‘Solar Parking’
BY BRUCE ROSS
W
HOEVER THOUGHT A parking lot could double as a source of renewable energy? That’s exactly what’s happening today at
six parking lots on three campuses of the Con- tra Costa Community College District (CCCCD) in California.
Installation of photovoltaic panels atop 34 parking lot
canopies has created the largest solar power installation at any U.S. college or university. The installation was part of a $200millionmodernization and expansion of all three CCC- CD campuses. The district’s quest for energy savings started in mid-
2005, when it hired Chevron Energy Solutions, based in San Francisco, to conduct a comprehensive energy audit across all three campuses and the district’s administrative offices. The audit recommended a number of energy-conserving
measures, including upgrading lighting across the campuses to high-efficiency fluorescent tubes and ballasts; improving the energy efficiency of HVAC systems at district offices; and installing energy-miser-monitoring devices on all vend- ingmachines on the campuses.
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