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Pennsylvania Solar Center presents feasibility study for Munhall site, stresses tight federal deadlines and funding choices
Summary
Amelia Egan, assistant director of the Pennsylvania Solar Center, told the Munhall Borough Council at a workshop meeting that a ground‑mounted solar array on an unused parcel near the Siemens building could offset the borough's municipal electric use and stabilize future electricity costs.
Amelia Egan, assistant director of the Pennsylvania Solar Center, told the Munhall Borough Council at a workshop meeting that a ground‑mounted solar array on an unused parcel near the Siemens building could offset the borough's municipal electric use and stabilize future electricity costs. Egan said technical modeling shows the array could be sized to exceed the borough's estimated electric consumption and that a direct‑purchase scenario in the study had a listed installed cost of $884,520.
The study examined multiple procurement paths. Egan described three principal options: a direct municipal purchase (with the borough owning and maintaining the system), a municipal loan to finance ownership, and a power purchase agreement in which a developer owns the system and sells electricity to…
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