Governmental Agencies That Use Solar Power
Every U.S. president since George H Bush has signed executive orders calling for the reductions of energy use by government agencies and reductions of harmful green-house gas emissions.
So far many government agencies from the Department of Energy to the U.S. Environmental Protection agency have responded by either installing solar panels, or by buying cheaper renewable energy.
The United States Post office has installed solar power panels on three of its major California mail processing sites. Over a 20-year, period these solar installations are expected to reduce electric power costs and reduce harmful carbon dioxide emissions.
The three postal service sites in Marina del Rey, San Franscisco an Oakland, built in cooperation with SunPower, a major manufacturer solar panel arrays, produce over 1.4 million kilovolts of electricity for the whole system. The Postal Service expects that just the Marina del Rey system will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 4,000 tons and is equivalent to planting 216,000 trees or removing 1,000 cars from the highways of Los Angeles.
Other novel solar installations are in use by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy in Hawai and Coronado, and the Air Force Academy on rooftops and in parking lots.
