AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) – After a 12 months of planning, Street Toyota has began constructing its dealership for brand spanking new photo voltaic panels.
“Toyota has been constructing hybrids for about 27 years, in order that they’re actually about decreasing the world’s carbon footprint from their automobiles and from their dealerships. So we simply thought this was a good time to place up photo voltaic panels,” mentioned Cory Dupriest, common supervisor of Street Toyota.
There are 840 photo voltaic panels put in on prime of the dealership and every panel is bifacial, absorbing energy on each side.
“Now we use multiple million kilowatthours (kWh) of electrical energy right here and it ought to produce about 700,000 kWh, so our electrical energy invoice will probably be lower by about 70%,” mentioned Dupriest.
There is a monitor in entrance of the showroom that can present how a lot vitality is produced and used for the day, week or 12 months.
Dupriest says photo voltaic panels can scale back the carbon footprint by about 450 metric tons per 12 months.
The challenge is about a million {dollars} and is funded by the dealership and rebates from the federal government to assist offset the price.
Solar panels can last as long as 30 years or longer. The challenge is scheduled to be absolutely operational by the tip of July.
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