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The Fayetteville Public Library will host a public presentation of its recently-installed Solar Test Bed Project on Tuesday, August 24 at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s Walker Community Room. The library installed 60 solar panels on its roof in June. Since that time, the panels have been producing electrical power, helping to offset the library’s energy [...] Innovation grant recipients at ICMA Leadership and Professional Development meeting, August 13th, 2010 City officials and library staff attended the final ICMA innovation grant meeting in the nation’s captial August 11-13, 2010. Representing the City of Fayetteville were Don Marr, the mayor’s chief of staff, and John Coleman, city director of sustainability. Library director of information technology, [...] Streaming video of the construction phase kickoff press conference held June 4th: Press Conference Streaming video of the Unirac construction and panel installation, June 14th-26th: Installation Patrons interact with the solar test-bed education kiosk located in the Blair library lobby. July 30th, 2010 – The library rolled out the educational kiosk for the solar test-bed project. The solar kiosk development was funded by grant through the Arkansas Energy Office. The upper portion of the kiosk has 5 main areas of information: 1) ICMA [...] Engineering students Matthew Bell and Jeremy Pearman (holding meter) checking DC voltage prior to inverter startup. On Friday, June 25th at approximately 2:30pm (CDT) the solar array was brought online to a bright sunny day in Fayetteville. Within minutes the system ramped up to producing near 10kW of power. Many factors including clouds, temperature, and angle of [...] Solar installation team photo after all 3 arrays were completed, June 16th, 2010 The construction phase of the library’s ICMA Solar Test Bed grant project went into high gear on Monday, June 14th, when the solar team began assembling the Unirac ULA array mounts and securing the solar panels. The solar team is comprised of industry [...] Project partner Multi-Craft, Inc. setting array roof mounting brackets. On June 4th, the library held a press conference thanking our project partners and kicked off the construction phase of the solar test bed. The speakers included library Executive Director – Shawna Thorup, Mayor of Fayetteville – Lioneld Jordan, and solar project team member and engineering professor Dr. [...] First quarterly report of 2010 submittied to ICMA in early April. Click the link below for the full report: ICMA March 2010 Quarterly Report The Fayetteville Public Library will kick off a four-part going-green series on Saturday, January 16, from 10 a.m. to noon. The Green Your Life Series will focus on simple ways to achieve a more energy-efficient lifestyle by introducing elements such as weatherization, recycling, water conservation and solar energy options, such as adding solar panels. The series will [...] Report for the period 9/1/2009 – 12/31/2009 Accomplishments and activities during this period: 1. Conducted major reviews of project plan |
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