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California Jail Installs New Microgrid to Cut Energy Costs
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2013
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2013, page 39
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California Jail Installs New Microgrid to Cut Energy Costs
by Derek Gilna
The Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, California has installed an $11.7 million "microgrid" system to help power the 4,000-bed facility, which is the fifth-largest jail in the nation. Previously, the jail had installed a 9,000-solar panel array ...
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