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Grant Gives Light -- Solar Style

FRIDAY HARBOR, WA-A grant from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation has helped add four new solar sites to the Orcas Power and Light Cooperative Green Power program headquartered here. With

By Gina Binole | Updated on September 18, 2001

FRIDAY HARBOR, WA-Several organizations are the beneficiaries of a $37,000 grant to install solar panels.

The Bonneville Environmental Foundation has helped add four new solar panels at Windermere Real Estate Building in Eastsound, WA, the Lopez (Island) Community Center, the Westsound Marina and the OPALCO office. This combination of utility owned and privately owned sites will contribute an estimated 5,200 kilowatt hours of electricity a year into the electricity grid, producing energy that is natural and pollution-free while helping the islands served by OPALCO to become more self sufficient.

“The regional interest in solar energy has quickened considerably since BEF opened its doors in 1999,” says Angus Duncan, president of BEF. “OPALCO members have been among the first to show a high level of interest in power that is non-polluting.”

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