Cincinnati opened on Thursday what is called the solar panel managed by the largest municipality in the country.
The New Market Solar Project will be installed on approximately 890 acres of land in Highland County, about forty-five miles east of the city.
Yasmin Chilton, spokesman for Mayor John Cranley’s office, said the assignment would involve more than 310,000 solar panels, the length of 750 football fields.
The site will be operational in December. Overall, it is expected to supply 203,000 megawatt hours of force each year, enough to force one hundred percent of Cincinnati’s electricity intake for all owners and operated throughout the city, adding Greater Cincinnati Water Works.
This means that electricity owned and operating through the Cincinnati government will be impartial in terms of carbon emissions until the end of 2021.
The allocation costs more than $125 million, but is financed through an electric power acquisition agreement, meaning Cincinnati will initially acquire electricity generated from the grid during the contract’s 20-year term.
By trading a constant price, the city expects to save $1. 8 million on the 20-year contract.
“He may be a climate replacement denier,” Mayor Cranley told The Enquirer in 2019 when the assignment was first announced. “I probably wouldn’t do it in science. But it would be irresponsible for a city not to deliver a less expensive product, especially if it is greater for the environment. “