Wednesday, 27 January 2021 The University of Richmond is now one of only two higher education institutions in the U.S., and the first in the southeast, to match 100% of its electricity needs with a single solar power source. UR’s latest solar project, Spider Solar, is a new 20-megawatt solar energy facility that replenishes the electric grid with the same amount of renewable solar energy that the campus uses to run day-to-day operations. Courtesy of University of Richmond
The 47,000-panel solar array began operating on Dec. 31, 2020, and will produce 41,000 megawatt-hours of solar energy annually – equivalent to the annual electricity use of 5,000 homes – and will neutralize 19,720 metric tons of carbon annually.