DCT Gets Green to Go Green
Julie Hersh, DCT president, Board of Trustees; Scott Martin , vice president, Green Mountain Energy; and Robyn Flatt, DCT executive artistic director — Courtesy Photo
by Bruce Felps
The East Dallas carbon footprint soon will become a little smaller thanks to a corporate gift from Green Mountain Energy Co. to the Dallas Children’s Theater.
The energy company today presented a check in the amount of $50,000 to DCT. The theater, in turn, will use the funds to pay for a 16.2-kilowatt solar panel system.
The array will help reduce DCT’s energy use and carbon footprint, as well as educate children and parents attending the theater about the benefits of solar energy. The solar photovoltaic system will be installed on the roof of the Rosewood Center and it is believed to be the first one to help power a performing arts center in Dallas.
The Green Mountain Energy Solar at Dallas Children’s Theater is expected to produce more than 21,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year by converting sunlight into pollution-free electricity. It will be more than 1,100 square feet and built with 60 large solar panels and will offset 27,800 pounds of carbon dioxide each year. That’s the equivalent of not driving more than 30,000 miles annually, or 127 road trips between Dallas and Houston.
Alternative Power Solutions will install the solar panels. This will be APS’s third solar array installation for Green Mountain. Construction on the 16.2 kW solar system will start this week and is expected to be completed by late September.
Green Mountain funded DCT’s new solar array through its Big Texas Sun Club, a program in which Green Mountain’s Texas customers can choose to support solar energy installations in Texas by contributing an additional $5 on their monthly Green Mountain Energy electricity bill. This will be the 24th solar project built in Texas thanks to the Big Texas Sun Club. With this installation, Green Mountain’s Big Texas Sun Club will be responsible for creating more than 223 kW of new solar energy capacity in Texas since 2002.
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