In 2008, as part of the Board’s Live Green goal, the Board envisioned a plan to make Superior an energy self-sufficient community within 10 years. To achieve the goal to be an energy self-sufficient community, the Town is committed to exploring renewable energy projects and all other financially-prudent measures to offset all of its energy consumption and reduce our collective energy consumption for all existing and future municipal operations.
On Monday the Town Board approved the first phase of a two phase project to install photovoltaic (PV) systems on Town facilities. The first phase will install PV systems at five Town facilities totaling 40.85 kW. These systems will generate 56,524 kWh of clean renewable energy annually, offsetting more than 25 percent of the total energy consumption at these five sites. This equals 113,048 lbs. of CO2 reduction, planting 16 acres of trees annually, or removing 7 cars from the road annually.
The second phase of the project will include the installation of the two largest PV systems at the water and wastewater treatment facilities. These systems are currently in the design phase, but once installed are expected to be up to 1,000 kW in size and produce up to 1,450,000 kWh of clean renewable electricity annually and reduce approximately 2,900,000 lbs. of CO2 annually.
These two projects are only the beginning of what we can expect to see in the future to become a more energy efficient and green community.
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