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Real Goods solar selected to deploy solar power plant for Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (RSOL) 3.85 : RGS Energy, the commercial and utility division of Real Goods Solar (RSOL), has been selected by Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) to deploy a 425 kilowatt (kW) elevated solar power plant at its Hayward D6 Bus Facility in Hayward, California. RGS Energy will design, install, monitor and maintain the solar power plant at the Hayward Bus Facility.
The project involves the installation of a 14-foot high, 22,000-square-foot solar bus-port canopy. The canopy will be capable of generating more than 15 million kWh over the next 25 years. Construction is scheduled to begin by the end of the year and be completed by March 2014. By harnessing energy from the sun, AC Transit expects to reduce the facility's cost of electricity by at least $40,000 in the first year.
This is expected to add up to more than $1 million over the next 25 years, while eliminating more than 24 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions or the equivalent of taking more than 2,340 cars off the road (per EPA-based data).
