Solar is Up and Running Backwards

ZD’s new photovoltaic system is installed and soaking up the rays! Now if only it would stop raining, but of course, rain is important too!

ZD’s 712 solar panels are 18 feet wide and span an imposing 500 feet along the edge of the vineyard, that’s 1.67 football fields long.

According to the Alliance to Save Energy, Clean Power Research, 2006, ZD’s system will produce enough energy over the year to do any one of the following:

• Power 22 homes for a year
  
• Remove the equivalent CO2 that 32 acres of trees would process
  
• Power 1,238 100 watt light bulbs a year
  
• Remove the equivalent of 16 cars from the road a year

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