Dinniman: Commonwealth Approves
Four Area Solar Projects
Recipients Include Two Schools, a Senior Housing Facility and Water Treatment Plant

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 7, 2010

CONTACT: MARTIN INDARS      
PHONE: 610-692-2112     
mindars@pasenate.com 

State Sen. Andy Dinniman on Wednesday announced that four solar projects have been selected to receive funding from Pennsylvania’s historic Alternative Energy Investment Fund approved in 2008.

• The Delaware Valley Friends School in Tredyffrin will install a rooftop photovoltaic system with the help of $124,740 in state funding.
• The School at Church Farm in West Whiteland will install a system both on rooftops and on the ground with the help of $1.19 million in state funding.
• The planned Makamie at Whiteland’s senior housing community to be developed by Frazer/Exton Development will receive 90 percent of its power from a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic system to be built on a 7-acre Superfund site with $2.6 million in state funding.
• Aqua Pennsylvania will power its Pickering Water Treatment Plant in Schuylkill Township with the help of a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic system funded in part with $1.5 million in state funding.

“I was pleased when my colleagues and I approved the $650 million Alternative Energy Investment Fund back in 2008, and today I am proud to see that money invested right here in Chester County,” Dinniman said. “Homes and schools and businesses are changing how they get their electricity in a way that benefits the environment, provides local jobs and takes pressure off our electric grid.”

For more details, contact Martin Indars in Senator Dinniman’s office at 1-610-692-2112 or at mindars@pasenate.com.

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