SolarCity Completes Installation of 18,000+ Solar Panels at Army Family Housing in Maryland and Colorado

NEW YORK, NY --(eSolarEnergyNews)-- Balfour Beatty Communities, as managing member of military housing projects located at Fort Detrick and Fort Carson, and SolarCity have completed the installation of more than 18,000 solar panels at Army family housing.

The solar panels are installed on multi-family housing, community centers and maintenance facilities at Fort Detrick, Maryland and Fort Carson, Colorado, to provide power to approximately 1,200 housing units across the two bases.

SolarCity designed, built and will maintain the solar power systems, and the military housing project companies (jointly owned by the Army and Balfour Beatty Communities) purchase the power they produce at a discount to local utility rates to generate savings. The installations total more than 4.7 megawatts (MW) of solar power generation capacity—Fort Carson is the larger of the projects with a combined 3 MW of capacity and the Fort Detrick installations are at 1.7 MW.

Baltimore Ravens Install 65 MW of Solar Power

HILLSBORO, OR--(eSolarEnergyNews)--SolarWorld, the largest U.S. crystalline-silicon solar technology manufacturer for more than 40 years, announced today that it has supplied about 400 kilowatts of solar panels for Constellation’s solar installation at the Under Armour Performance Center, the Baltimore Ravens training facility in Owings Mills, Md.

The project encompassed a portion of nearly 65 megawatts of high-performance solar panels that SolarWorld has provided to Baltimore-based Constellation. In many cases, Constellation owns and operates systems for at least 20 years, during which time property owners enjoy power from the systems at fixed, reduced rates.