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“WASHINGTON – To hear Emil King tell it, the benefits of the 8,000-odd solar panels shimmering before him on an industrial lot in Washington D.C. go far beyond helping the U.S. capital city fight climate change.
The city-administered solar park was built on polluted land that had become an eyesore, and the power it produces has been used to halve the electricity bills of about 700 low-income local families, said King, a city environmental official.
“The community saw that they’d be getting money off their bills, but that it was also going to be about a vacant property getting some attention and getting cleaned up,” he said.”…Read More…
Source: Reuters
