Washington Metro: Renewable energy from station parking lots to power local homes
Washington Metro is one of the largest rapid transit systems in the US, with 98 stations covering Washington DC as well as several jurisdictions in Maryland and Virginia.
Alongside its own sustainability goals, Metro also supports those of the different jurisdictions in which it operates and, as a large landowner with over 1000 acres of property, Metro realized it had a unique opportunity to use these assets for solar panel installations. This was particularly important as there are not many places in this urban area to accommodate such large solar arrays – Metro is one of the few organizations with a real estate footprint big enough to make it happen.
How to turn this opportunity into the region’s largest aggregate solar project?
This is the largest ever aggregate solar project in the Washington…
