{"id":126,"date":"2011-05-24T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/our-solar-system\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T10:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:31:45","slug":"our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/our-solar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/static\/solar_panel.jfif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In April, the City of Philadelphia unveiled its first solar photovoltaic system (above), located at PWD&rsquo;s Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant. The 250-kilowatt solar array consists of more than 1,000 panels covering 60,000 square feet, and its electricity will help power the energy-intensive task of water treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The project&#8217;s total cost of $1.7 million\u2014funded jointly by a Recovery Act Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant and PWD\u2014 is expected to have a 9-year payback period and helps to achieve Mayor Michael Nutter&#8217;s Greenworks goal of generating 20 percent of Philadelphia&rsquo;s electricity from alternative energy sources by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PWD is proud to use clean, sustainable power generated on-site,&#8221; said PWD commissioner Howard Neukrug at the solar PV installation on April 25. &#8220;Because this project was so successful, we\u2019re planning to replicate it at other treatment plants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More info and a fact sheet about the solar panels can be found at the Philadelphia Recovery Office&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/philarecovery.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/26\/mayor-nutter-opens-city%E2%80%99s-first-solar-pv-installation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Video of the installation after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/21303519?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, the City of Philadelphia unveiled its first solar photovoltaic system (above), located at PWD&rsquo;s Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"custom_css":"","custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,44,51,75],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-energy","tag-green-infrastructure","tag-infrastructure-investment","tag-project-update","wpautop"],"acf":{"suggested":null},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/phila.gov\/blog\/our-solar-system\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Our Solar System","url":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/our-solar-system\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/our-solar-system\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Infrastructure","author":[],"creator":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"@PhillyH2O Blog","logo":""},"keywords":["energy","green infrastructure","infrastructure investment","project update"],"dateCreated":"2011-05-24T18:05:00Z","datePublished":"2011-05-24T18:05:00Z","dateModified":"2023-01-20T15:31:45Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Our Solar System\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/our-solar-system\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/our-solar-system\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Infrastructure\",\"author\":[],\"creator\":[],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"@PhillyH2O Blog\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"energy\",\"green infrastructure\",\"infrastructure investment\",\"project update\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2011-05-24T18:05:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-24T18:05:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-20T15:31:45Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/phila.gov\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}