Sabuwar Cibiyar Sutton Road Solar Farm ta Jami'ar Cornell, wani wurin samar da makamashi mai karfin megawatt 2 wanda zai daidaita kusan kashi 40 cikin XNUMX na bukatun wutar lantarki na shekara-shekara. Tashar Gwajin Aikin Noma ta Jihar New York (NYSAES) a Geneva, New York, ya fara aiki cikakke a ranar 13 ga Afrilu.
"Masu bincikenmu suna gudanar da bincike na asali da kuma amfani da su don inganta amfanin gona da kuma sa su zama masu jurewa ga cututtuka, fari da kuma mummunan tasirin yanayi maras tabbas yayin da muke tsara makomar noma mai dorewa," in ji Susan Brown, Daraktan Iyali na Goichman na NYSAES. "A cikin shirye-shiryen mu na 'ya'yan itace da kayan marmari muna nazarin hanya mafi kyau don girbi rana, don haka ya dace kawai cewa makamashin da ke ba da wutar lantarki da ɗakunan mu zai yi daidai."
Ginin gonar hasken rana, wani katafaren kadada 17 mai dauke da bangarori 9,120 na daukar hoto dake kusa da Sutton Road a Seneca, New York, an fara aikin bazarar bara kuma shine aikin sikelin megawatt na biyu na Cornell. A cikin Satumba 2014, jami'a ta bude Cornell Snyder Road Solar Farm tare da 6,778 photovoltaic bangarori a kan wani yanki mai girman eka 11 wanda ke da alaƙa da Filin Jirgin Sama na Yanki na Tompkins a Lansing, New York. Ƙara sabon tsarin Geneva zuwa kayan aikin Lansing, jami'ar za ta samar da wutar lantarki kimanin megawatt 5,700 a kowace shekara.
"Motsa daga tsarin dumama da wutar lantarki da iskar gas ke mamayewa zuwa makamashi mai sabuntawa ya zama dole don cimma burin Cornell da New York na rage kuzari," in ji Bert Bland, mataimakin mataimakin shugaban kasa kan makamashi da dorewar a bangaren ababen more rayuwa, Properties da tsare-tsare na jami'a. .
A cikin watan Satumba na 2014, Gwamna Andrew Cuomo ya sanar da lambar yabo ta NY-Sun don manyan ayyukan lantarki na hasken rana da za su kara karfin makamashin hasken rana a jihar da fiye da megawatts 214, karuwar kashi 68 cikin XNUMX akan adadin hasken rana da aka sanya. NY-Sun Initiative yayi ƙoƙari don faɗaɗa kasuwar makamashi mai sabuntawa ta jihar don rage farashin fasahar.
The Cibiyar Harkokin Kasuwancin Ma'aikatar Harkokin Kiwon Lafiya ta Jihar New York yana gudanar da lambobin yabo na NY-Sun, kuma ya ba da gudummawar kusan kashi ɗaya bisa uku na kuɗin babban aikin, yayin da mai haɓakawa mai zaman kansa Distributed Sun and Building Energy Asset Management LLC zai mallaki kuma ya sarrafa tsarin Geneva. Jeff Weiss '79 shi ne shugaba kuma mai gudanarwa a Distributed Sun. Cornell zai sayi wutar lantarki ta gonar mai amfani da hasken rana ta hanyar yarjejeniya da kamfanin.
Amfani da hasken rana ɗaya ne kawai daga cikin ayyuka da yawa da jami'a ke ɗauka don rage sawun carbon ɗin ta. An tuhumi Cornell's Senior Leader Climate Action Group da ba da fifikon ayyukan da za su taimaka wa jami'a ta zama tsaka-tsakin carbon. Kungiyar za ta gabatar da shawarwari da kuma kudaden da suka danganci su nan da 1 ga Satumba.
- Blaine Friedlander, Jami'ar Cornell