/B>An Austin Peay State University classroom is now being run on solar power, making the school the first commercial customer in Clarksville to contribute solar energy to the power grid.The 12-panel solar array at the school's Environmental Education Center farm was hooked up on Monday and was able to start producing at a 2.1 kilowatt an hour rate after a brief blast of sunlight on an otherwise cloudy day.Donald Sudbrink, director of the environmental center, told The Leaf-Chronicle that the array will power a 24-student classroom and the rest of the unused energy will feed into the Tennessee Valley Authority's power grid.The solar power array was paid for with $25,000 from the Student Sustainability Fee, which provides funding for projects that reduce the school's energy footprint./FONT>/>
Solar energy to power APSU classroom
An Austin Peay State University classroom is now being run on solar power, making the school the first commercial customer in Clarksville to contribute solar energy to the power grid.
