September 5, 2007
Cleveland’s Great Lakes Science Center dedicated 156-panel solar array on July 11, 2007.
The 300-foot cantilevered portico produces about 36 kW. The project was installed in a manner of weeks just prior to the 2007 American Solar Energy Society conference held nearby in the Cleveland Convention Center. The structure provides shade and a dramatic accent to the modern science museum on Cleveland’s harbor front.
The architectural solar array joins a 225 kW wind turbine installed a year earlier.
As Cleveland has followed Toronto’s example of installing an urban wind turbine on its harbor front, so too Toronto could follow Cleveland’s example and erect a solar portico at the ExPace’s Direct Energy Centre.
Great Lakes Science Center Solar Array
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Great Lakes Science Center Portico, Cleveland, Ohio. |
Great Lakes Science Center Portico, Cleveland, Ohio. |
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Great Lakes Science Center Portico, Cleveland, Ohio. |
Great Lakes Science Center Portico, Cleveland, Ohio. |
