{"id":26155,"date":"2023-07-17T18:59:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=26155"},"modified":"2023-07-17T18:59:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:59:51","slug":"ribbon-cutting-ceremony-held-at-abraham-lincoln-capital-airport-for-6m-solar-array-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/illinois\/ribbon-cutting-ceremony-held-at-abraham-lincoln-capital-airport-for-6m-solar-array-project\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Held at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport\u00ae for $6M Solar Array Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield Illinois held\na ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the operational start-up of their $6\nmillion installation of solar arrays at the Airport. Six arrays spanning across\nthree sites provide electrical power that offsets over 90% of the electrical\ncost of three Airport and three tenant accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tom Cleveland, president of IPAA, presented Mark Hanna,\nSpringfield Airport Authority Executive Director, with the first ever\nSustainability Award for the solar array operations and energy savings the airport\nhas realized through this endeavor. Also, Zack Kearnan, co-founder of Balance\nSolar, presented a check for $1,280,00013, the portion of the project cost that\nBalance Solar contributed to the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veregy collaborated with Springfield Airport Authority,\nowner and operator of Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport, to design and build an\nenergy saving project that significantly reduces the airport\u2019s operating\nbudget. Veregy oversaw the construction of the solar array that saves nearly\n$350,000 annually. The three airport accounts are net metered by a combination\nof roof and ground mounted solar arrays. The other three ground mounted arrays\nprovide a net metering solution for Standard Aero, one of the airport\u2019s tenants\nand generates over 4,000,000 kWh annually. The airport owns the entire system\nand provides energy to the tenant through a modification to its lease\nagreement. The savings are equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from 8\nmillion vehicle miles driven or 7,500 barrels of oil consumed each year. Also,\nVeregy provides all ongoing monitoring and maintenance for the solar arrays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veregy worked extensively to secure the Illinois Block Grant\nprogram\u2019s solar renewable energy credits (SRECs) for project funding along with\na PPA from Balance Solar that combined, provides $3.5 million to cover over\nhalf of the overall project cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project capitalizes on efforts that the Airport\ncompleted with the FAA previously in anticipation of a solar farm that would\nhave provided power direct into the utility grid. Now those FAA approvals are\nutilized in a Net Metering solution for increased revenue and budgetary\nsavings. This project is the largest airport owned solar array for Net Metering\nin the state of Illinois providing an anticipated savings of $14.1M over a 30-year\ntimeframe.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Hanna, Executive Director of the Airport states \u201cThis\nsolar project will satisfy our goals and objectives to provide our facility\nwith a significant new revenue source, environmentally friendly and\nsustainability attributes while deepening our relationships with our tenants\nand community stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (SPI) continues to show its\ndedication to the environment and tenants by providing a solution that not only\nreduces operating budgets and creates revenue but also provides a renewable\nenergy solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield Illinois held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the operational start-up of their $6 million installation of solar arrays at the Airport. Six arrays spanning across three sites provide electrical power that offsets over 90% of the electrical cost of three Airport and three tenant accounts. Tom Cleveland, president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illinois"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155","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=26155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26158,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155\/revisions\/26158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}