The company will install solar power systems on nine MUSD facilities that include – John Muir Elementary, John Swett Elementary, Las Juntas Elementary, Morello Park Elementary, Martinez Junior High, Alhambra High School, District Office, Maintenance Yard and Lower Campus.
Accounting for approximately 94% of the facilities’ electricity needs the project is also expected to help reduce costs of $22.5m over the next 20 years.
Commenting on the developments Martinez Unified School District chief business official Andi Stubbs remarked that the savings provided by these nine solar power systems will be used to support other initiatives in the district while the projects will also help the students learn the importance of conserving energy.
SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive added, "Twenty years from now, the District will still be educating Martinez’s youth, and it will still be reaping the broad benefits of the current leadership’s decision to go solar."
SolarCity’s web-based monitoring system PowerGuide will be employed at the MUSD facilities to demonstrate the workings of solar technology.
The company has in the past undertaken similar initiatives at over 200 schools, community colleges and universities in the US.
