All About Solar | Green Energy News

April 2, 2006 – Vol.11 No.2

All ABOUT SOLAR.

This week’s news...

It’s about education. Put something, anything, in front of people, tell them about it and repeat the process once, twice, dozens of times perhaps. Eventually, they’ll like it. They might even buy it: If it’s available.

Aside from adding clean power to the expanding Liberty Science Center in New Jersey, one of the two new solar systems to be installed will also play the double role of solar energy education.

One, 122-kilowatt solar system, will be mounted on the roof, where few may see it, but the other 105-kilowatt installation will be the canopy of the Solar Walkway. Visitors from the bus parking lot will be sheltered by solar energy rain or shine. Going to and from the Science Center visitors will experience quiet, clean solar power. Seeing it, experiencing it, they might get to like it and buy it for their homes or businesses someday.

The expansion and renovation of the Liberty Science Center - with its solar power - is expected to be complete and open to the public in 2007.

The Center is located at Liberty State Park across the Hudson River from Manhattan and in view of the Statue of Liberty. World Water and Power Corporation won the $1.9 million contract to design and install the two systems. Visit the Liberty Science Center at http://www.lsc.org/, World Water at http://www.worldwater.com/ .

Crisscrossed by highways, once known for its garbage dumps, still recognized for its uncontrolled development, and not far from the New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center, the Meadowlands of New Jersey is making a comeback.

Wildlife is returning to the 8400 acres of wetlands and years of neglect and abuse are being turned around by caring individuals. Someday it could be the garden spot of the Garden State.

Next on the agenda for the reclamation of the Meadowlands is the possibility of up to 20-megawatts of solar photovoltaic power and a clean energy industry.

Already, through its generous solar incentive program, New Jersey has become a hot bed of solar activity. Now the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission plans to expand the prominence of solar energy in the state by announcing an initiative that commission says has the potential to be the most aggressive action undertaken by a government agency in the history of modern energy.

Details are to be announced where an industry would be built centered around research, installation and manufacturing of alternative energy technologies. The 5-megawatts of solar power to be built immediately would showcase the project and provide clean power for residents. The solar capacity would grow to 20-megawatts by 2020.

The Meadowlands is ten minutes from Manhattan and of course the money brokers of Wall Street. They’ll be watching, getting involved. Visit the Meadowlands Commission at http://www.njmeadowlands.gov/