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Volume 10 Number 2


LIVE your life. fight your cancer.


October 2015


Chesapeake School in Solar Partnership with Dominion Virginia Power


Western Branch High School became the first high school in the Solar Partnership Pro- gram. Construction is underway for installation of more than 3,000 rooftop solar panels. The system will generate over 1 megawatts, enough to power more than 250 homes.


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Virginia Power and Chesapeake Public Schools announced today that Western Branch High School in Chesapeake will be the first high school in Virginia to host a solar energy system under Dominion‘s Solar Partnership Program. Construction is underway to install more than 3,000 rooftop solar panels that will generate over 1 MW of electricity at peak levels, enough to power more than 250 homes.


Western Branch also will be


the first partner under the program to incorporate


Education Plan, which will provide a train-the-trainer materials


Dominion’s Solar workshop and


designed to provide a


hands-on learning environment that extends beyond the classroom.


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Virginia WIC Program Income Chart Household


Annually


Size 1


2 3 4


21,775 29,471 37,167 44,863


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Monthly


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“Students at Western Branch High


School will have an opportunity to experience and learn about renewable energy from a system that is right on their


school’s rooftop,” said Brett


Crable, Dominion’s director of New Technology & Energy Conservation. “In addition


to the valuable


information Dominion will gain from this partnership, students will learn how solar photovoltaics work and how the system interacts with the electric grid.”


With Dominion Virginia Power’s


Solar Partnership Program, Dominion leases rooftop or ground space at commercial,


industrial or public


facilities for the installation of solar panels. The program is designed to expand Dominion’s understanding


SOLAR PARTNERSHIP PAGE 6


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