By Ray Stern | Phoenix New Times
What was billed as the nation’s largest solar-powered carport system is finally online at the Phoenix VA Health Care Center in Phoenix after a year-and-a-half delay.
As New Times learned in August, news articles and press releases in 2011 announcing the $20 million project’s near-completion had been premature.
The panel-covered carports may look neat, but until this week most of them were essentially idle, absorbing sunlight but not transmitting electricity.
News articles and press releases in April 2011 announced that the initial 640-kilowatt phase of the federally funded project had been completed, while the larger, 3.81-megawatt second phase was expected to be finished in early 2012.
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