BUILDING BLOCKS: Dane County Job Center Solar Project

County Executive Joe Parisi, center, is joined on Tuesday by Tyler Huebner, executive director of RENEW Wisconsin (right) and representatives of Strang Inc. and Full Spectrum Solar for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Dane County Job Center Solar Project. (Photo courtesy of Dane County)

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PROJECT: Dane County Job Center Solar Project

LOCATION: Dane County Job Center, 1819 Aberg Ave, Madison

SIZE: 498 panels

COMPLETION OF PROJECT: April

CONTRACTORS: Full Spectrum Solar, Madison; Forward Electric, Monona

DESIGNER: Strang, Inc., Madison

SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: The largest of Dane County’s 16 solar arrays, this project will help local officials get even closer to their goal of having the county get all of its energy from carbon-free sources by 2050. The job-center array’s 498 panels are expected to generate 205,000 kilowatt hours a year. That will provide about 25 percent of the power used at the job center and save the county $18,000 a year.

Dane County now has 600 kilowatts of installed solar-generation equipment. The county also has solar arrays at its East District Highway Garage and Medical Examiner’s Office, the Henry Vilas Zoo and the Dane County Regional Airport.