{"id":131601,"date":"2026-07-20T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=131601"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:22:48","slug":"solar-energy-initiative-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/solar-energy-initiative-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Energy Initiative Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning July 20, crews will be working to install ground-mounted solar panels as part of OWU\u2019s solar energy initiative. The work should continue for just over a month. Wildflower gardens will be planted under the ground arrays, and the areas will be fenced for safety.<\/p>\n<p>In the fall, crews will begin installing carport canopies in 7 parking lots across campus. When the 10,400+ solar panels begin producing energy in fall 2027, they are projected to produce 8.2 million kilowatt-hours of clean energy annually, enabling OWU to reduce its carbon emissions from electrical power consumption by approximately 82%.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the initiative at <a href=\"https:\/\/owu.edu\/solar\">owu.edu\/solar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: OWU Facilities<br \/>\nContact: facilities@owu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning July 20, crews will be working to install ground-mounted solar panels as part of OWU\u2019s solar energy initiative. The work should continue for just over a month. Wildflower gardens will be planted under the ground arrays, and the areas will be fenced for safety. In the fall, crews will begin installing carport canopies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131602,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131601\/revisions\/131602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}