A Solar School in the Bahia Vista Garden
In San Rafael, California, Bahia Vista Elementary School has a beautiful garden inside a fence with a wind screen. And there is also a solar array sticking out above the garden and soaking in the sun just like the plants and flowers and vegetables growing in the garden.
Juan Rodriguez is the Principal and Karen Holleran is in charge of the garden and so too the solar panels.
The location of this school is on Bahia Vista Way in San Rafael and just a few feet from the San Francisco Bay. There are more than 400 students at the school. PG&E donated the solar electricity system to the school and that is Karalee Browne of PG&E with Karen Holleran in the picture below. Karalee is on the right and Karen is dragging all of her teaching materials across the playground. It is a 1.4 kW system.
Karalee Browne of PG&E with Karen Holleran
If you would like more details about how these systems are installed or how the data works visit the Bahia Vista Solar School site.
The live data showing how much electricity is being generated can be seen by clicking the link right above the picture of the PV system on that same web site.