CEDARVILLE, Ohio — Cedarville University will soon be receiving clean, renewable energy from the sun via a 2,154 kilowatt solar array on the southwest edge of campus. Power is expected to begin flowing in April. The solar array is located on newly acquired land the university purchased from the Village of Cedarville. A new underground utility corridor for the solar array will allow the zero emission source to feed electricity to the university’s distribution system, making it the largest solar system directly connected to a university in Ohio.
The system will include monitoring and display features that support the university’s curriculum. Also, the clean energy produced will remove over 2,478 metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year.