{"id":23392,"date":"2022-09-09T00:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T00:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=23392"},"modified":"2022-09-09T00:30:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T00:30:55","slug":"faas-largest-solar-project-to-power-mike-monroney-aeronautical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/oklahoma\/faas-largest-solar-project-to-power-mike-monroney-aeronautical-center\/%20","title":{"rendered":"FAA\u2019s Largest Solar Project to Power Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The FAA\u2019s largest solar project to date is coming to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/about\/office_org\/headquarters_offices\/afn\/offices\/mmac\">Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center<\/a> (the Center) in Oklahoma City. The clean electricity generated from the solar panels on FAA property will help serve the Center\u2019s power needs.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis project captures the area\u2019s abundant sunshine, will\nsave valuable taxpayer dollars and will help build a more sustainable aviation\nsystem,&#8221; said Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The panels are expected to produce 2,600 megawatt hours\nannually, the equivalent needed to power 260 average homes. The project will\nreduce the Center\u2019s electric bill by an estimated $170,000 &#8211; $200,000 annually.\nAir traffic controllers, technical operations professionals and aviation\ninspectors are trained at the Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many energy-related advancements currently\nunderway at the Center. Sixteen of the FAA\u2019s 24 certified sustainable buildings\nare located on the Center\u2019s campus. The Center has participated in two pilot\nprograms for electric vehicle charging stations, and local university students\nare currently studying ways to better track the Center\u2019s energy use and\nreporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project helps the FAA meet President Biden\u2019s goal for\nfederal buildings to be clean and sustainable. Other solar projects include a 1,600-panel\nsolar farm adjacent to the Tucson, Ariz., air traffic control tower. The panels\ngenerate enough power to support all of that facility\u2019s electrical needs for\nseveral hours a day and help cool the building at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FAA\u2019s largest solar project to date is coming to the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (the Center) in Oklahoma City. The clean electricity generated from the solar panels on FAA property will help serve the Center\u2019s power needs.\u00c2\u00a0 \u201cThis project captures the area\u2019s abundant sunshine, will save valuable taxpayer dollars and will help build a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oklahoma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Largest-Solar-Project.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23394,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23392\/revisions\/23394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}