Portland Community College partners with SolarWorld and SolarCity for massive solar-power project
When completed later this spring, the 2,100-panel array is expected to produce 500,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually. That's enough electricity to meet the needs of 40 average-size houses.
PCC Rock Creek Campus
The jarring juxtaposition of sheep grazing quietly beneath hundreds of new solar panels will soon take shape on Portland Community College's Rock Creek campus.
College administrators, working with a handful of industry and governmental partners, are overseeing installation of what is being billed as the largest "ground-mounted" solar array in the Portland metro area.
And it will all fit neatly into an area of the campus now devoted to a working farm which includes, among other features, plenty of sheep.
"It's really a perfect fit," Rock Creek campus President David Rule said. "I don't see how this could have turned out any better."
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The result, when completed, will be a 35,000-square-foot array covering approximately two acres and capable of providing about 60 percent of the energy needs of Building 9. The 72,000-square-foot structure houses students, administrative services and the Rock Creek campus library.
