Two 25-kw systems will be installed at the St. Louis, Mo. club by the end of the year, one on the clubhouse and one on the pro shop. The panels will provide equivalent annual power for seven average homes while reducing carbon-dioxide emissions equal to 10 cars per year.
Norwood Hills Country Club plans to install 50 kilowatts of solar power on its St. Louis County campus before the end of the year, the club reports. Brightergy, a Missouri clean-energy company (http://www.brightergy.com/commercial-solar-installer/), will be installing two 25 kW systems, one on the clubhouse and one on the pro shop.
“We are proud to be the first St. Louis-area country club to install solar panels.” said John Wright, General Manager/COO. “The environmental and financial benefits of these arrays will benefit our membership for years to come.
“As a fixture in the St. Louis-area golf scene since the 1920s, Norwood Hills prides itself on going the extra mile by adhering to practices that benefit not only our facilities and membership, but the environment as well,” Wright added. “Through the installation of these solar arrays, we hope to set a high standard for other institutions to adhere by.”
Norwood Hills’ solar panels will provide an estimated 66,000 kilowatt-hours of clean-energy production per year—enough energy, the club says, to power seven average St. Louis area homes. In the same period of time, the system will prevent the release of 51.3 tons of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into Missouri’s atmosphere—the environmental equivalent of taking 10 cars off the road for a year, or the carbon sequestered by 1,194 tree seedlings grown for 10 years.
“We are thrilled to work with Norwood Hills on their upcoming solar energy installation,” said Cindy Bambini, Brightergy’s Director of Business Development. “As renewable energy advocates, nothing brings more satisfaction to us than offering our customers the ability to generate their own energy.
“Moving forward, Norwood Hills will not only reduce the club’s environmental impact and operating costs, but more importantly, hedge against future rate increases,” Bambini added.
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