Delaware Technical Community College marked the end of their $7 million energy project on the Terry Campus with the completion of the last solar installation.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that this will result in a total production of 2.1 megawatts or about 12 percent of the college’s energy requirements.
The paper reports that this is one of the largest such installations in the state.
The state of Delaware hopes to get 25 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources by the middle of the next decade.
Robert Underwood with the Delaware Department of Natural and Environmental Control says the efforts by Del Tech is one of the major reasons why the state is meeting is renewable energy goals
