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Champaign County committee hears solar options for courthouse, adult and juvenile detention sites
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The Champaign County Facilities Committee on Monday heard a presentation from Drew Mueller of Straight Up Solar on rooftop and ground-mounted photovoltaic options for the courthouse, the adult detention facility (Pope) and the juvenile detention center (JDC).
The Champaign County Facilities Committee on Monday heard a presentation from Drew Mueller of Straight Up Solar on rooftop and ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) options for the courthouse, the adult detention facility (referred to in the meeting as Pope) and the juvenile detention center (JDC).
Mueller presented budgetary, not contract-ready, estimates and an incentive stack that includes Illinois SREC-style payments administered via the Illinois Power Agency, an Ameren smart-inverter rebate and the federal 30% “direct pay” provision for municipal and nonprofit projects. He said the incentives can reduce the example adult-detention system’s net cost from roughly $1.2 million to about $300,000 after incentives and rebates, and he modeled a payback just under five years and…
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